When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the universe. The JWST looked ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Astronomers have identified a rare class of galaxies in our cosmic backyard that were previously believed to exist only in ...

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

Compact ruddy galaxies seen by the James Webb telescope confound astronomers. Having very little spin at birth may explain the galaxies’ small sizes.

JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Offer Astronomers the Universe’s Weirdest Puzzle The James Webb Space Telescope’s search for the earliest stars and black holes has yielded a very weird, very ...

A subset of a couple dozen little red dots had additional data available, 80% of them showed those same signs of gas spiraling into a black hole, Kocevski says.

A mysterious class of small, red objects in the early universe might be explained by black holes inside dense cocoons of gas, like a star. Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little red dots" and found clues about their identity.