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James Webb telescope uncovers new, 'hidden' type of black hole never seen beforeBy combining data from the Subaru Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have discovered distant quasars that are obscured by dust but which may shed light on Little Red Dots.
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Scientists spot 'L-shaped structures' and 'weird things' near monster black hole in epic new Hubble telescope imagesNew Hubble Space Telescope images of a black hole-powered quasar reveal 'weird' structures and gigantic jets of energy that scientists are just beginning to explain.
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Scientists make lab-grown black hole jetsBy using protons to probe how a magnetic field responds to an expanding plasma, experimenters have replicated the particle jets spewed out by active black holes.
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Astronomers discover the 1st-ever merging galaxy cores at cosmic dawnTwo superluminous quasars, or active black holes at the centers of large galaxies, were found just 900 million years after the Big Bang — the earliest detection of a pair of merging quasars ever seen.
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James Webb telescope measures the starlight around the universe's biggest, oldest black holes for 1st time everAstronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have separated the light of a quasar from the light of its surrounding stars, offering unprecedented insight into how the universe's oldest black holes grew.
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'Baby quasars' spotted by James Webb telescope could transform our understanding of monster black holesScientists think that by studying a cluster of "baby quasars," they can get a better understanding of supermassive black holes in the early universe.
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Astronomers spot gigantic black hole killing a galaxy's star formation at the dawn of timeObservations made by Chile's ALMA telescope have revealed a gigantic quasar quenching a galaxy's star formation — a first-of-its-kind observation in the early universe.
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Universe's oldest X-ray-spitting quasar could reveal how the biggest black holes were bornThe newly identified quasar, observed 13.7 billion light-years away by the James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be an example of a heavy black hole "seed" in the early universe.
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Gaia spacecraft reveals 'goldmine' of over 500,000 undiscovered starsThe European Space Agency's Gaia telescope revealed half a million newfound stars, and detailed the orbits of over 150,000 asteroids.
