Here is what you will learn when you read this story: Little red dots (LRDs) observed by the James Webb Space Telescope were initially thought to be galaxies, but something was amiss. Researchers who ...

Some of the mysterious pinpricks of light at the dawn of the Universe could be a type of object we've never seen before. According to a new analysis of a "little red dot" (LRD) nicknamed The Cliff, ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

The Big Bang may have actually been the explosive rebound of a collapsing black hole – one which our entire Universe could still be inside of. That’s the claim of a new study led by Enrique Gaztañaga ...

This summer, astronomers detected a gamma ray burst (GRB) so powerful that they’re still struggling to explain what caused it. These cosmic explosions are typically produced by stars dying in a ...

Scientists have simulated how M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy M87, powers its immense particle jet. The Frankfurt team’s FPIC code shows that magnetic reconnection, where ...