The James Webb Space Telescope has identified an extraordinary system of five galaxies merging when the universe was only ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found a galaxy that is offering new data about the early stages of the ...

Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much ...

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the researchers identified an ongoing merger event of at least ...

MoM-z14 existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang, according a team of astronomers led by Dr. Rohan Naidu from the ...

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An early black hole feeds too fast—yet still blasts X-rays and radio jets.

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big Bang—a cosmic Jekyll and Hyde that looks like any other galaxy when viewed in ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier than astronomers believed such well-structured galaxies could form. With ...

This early galaxy hosts as much as 30% of the oxygen of a fully developed, modern-day one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A ...