Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope help to explain the cluster’s mysterious starburst, usually only seen in younger galaxies.

Researchers characterize the peculiar Einstein Probe transient EP240408a.

Their source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge, MIT astronomers report.

System observed 8,000 light-years away may be the first direct evidence of “gentle” black hole formation.

The quasars appear to have few cosmic neighbors, raising questions about how they first emerged more than 13 billion years ago.

Watching for changes in the Red Planet’s orbit over time could be new way to detect passing dark matter.

In the first quintillionth of a second, the universe may have sprouted microscopic black holes with enormous amounts of nuclear charge, MIT physicists propose.

The results offer a new way to probe supermassive black holes and their evolution across the universe.

The observations suggest some of earliest “monster” black holes grew from massive cosmic seeds.

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