James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a strange red speck glowing in the depths of the early ...

A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

Portuguese researchers predict that Europe's future space observatory will detect hundreds of thousands of supermassive black ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With next-generation telescopes, they hope to spot telltale signs of alternative physics ...

Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

Thousands of galaxies, each containing billions of stars, are in this 2022 photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. [Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI] BY The Conversation Curious Kids is a series for ...

A small piece of metal engineered in Australia helped sharpen the James Webb telescope's vision from a million miles away.

Two weeks ago, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was at conjunction, on the opposite side of the Sun with respect to Earth. Last ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists have recreated "cosmic fireballs" here on Earth in a particle accelerator.The ...

The B.S. in astronomy & astrophysics at UW offers students an adventurous course of study in astronomical objects—from stars to black holes to solar systems—and their properties and functions. The ...