Named Earendel, after a character from J.R.R Tolkien’s Silmarillion, this star is the most distant ever observed by scientists and is now ... in 2022 using the Hubble telescope. “Typically, galaxies ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's twice as long as the Milky Way.

These jets become elusive the farther back in time astronomers try to look because of the so-called cosmic microwave ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

By revealing a massive radio jet in the early universe, J1601+3102 offers a rare snapshot of early quasar activity.

A century ago, Edwin Hubble unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the cosmos. His identification of a faint star in the Andromeda Galaxy, known as V1, ...

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

The research team said these rings likely formed when a smaller galaxy shot through the heart of the Bullseye galaxy roughly ...

Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...

Now, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered barred Milky Way-like galaxies much further back in time ... galaxies were recently observed using James Webb.