The brightest quasar ever seen in the young cosmos is powered by a black hole that appears to be breaking the universe’s own ...

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

We just got the clearest snapshot yet of the first light that streamed through the Universe. The results? We now have a clearer window into the infancy of the Universe, revealing with greater ...

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The universe comes with a built‑in speed cap, a hard limit that shapes everything from how stars shine to how cause and ...

Light is one aspect of the Universe that, for most people, holds a deep and noticeable value in everyday life, helping them ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just spotted round clusters of stars inside a galaxy more than 13 billion light years away, which formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. The ...

It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks and clusters. But this is not a video about insects. It’s a simulation of the ...

The universe rarely fails to amaze. One of its latest surprises—nicknamed the “Einstein zig-zag”—reveals a stunning arrangement of galaxies and a distant quasar. Together, they produce a gravitational ...

This is a full-sky shot of the universe’s long wavelength light courtesy of the European Space Association’s Planck telescope. This image reveals ancient cosmic microwave background radiation and the ...