Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...
A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some ...
Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique image that revealed 44 individual stars in a galaxy 6.5 billion light ...
Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.
Quasars are among the oldest, brightest objects in the universe. Formed from active galactic nuclei (AGN)—areas at the center of galaxies ... up to a million light years away from the central ...