But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 million years after the Big Bang and has a mass 9 million times that of the sun.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

James Webb Telescope observes rotating galaxies hinting black hole theories Using its incredibly sensitive instruments, the James Webb Space Telescope studied 263 ancient galaxies, some dating ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently spotted a rare cosmic phenomenon known as the "Cosmic Owl". This structure is ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

His research will investigate how supermassive black holes, or SMBHs, were "seeded" in the early universe. Seeding refers to the formation of an initial small black hole that grows—either by accreting ...