James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

Astronomers pinpointed BiRD near the extensively studied quasar J1030+0524, which resides at a distance of about 12.5 billion ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a strange red speck glowing in the depths of the early ...

New research suggests that "little red dots" seen in the early universe may actually be a new class of cosmic object: black hole stars. If this theory is correct, it could explain how black holes ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at the dawn of the universe may be giant spheres of hot gas that are so dense they look like the ...

We preselected all newsletters you had before unsubscribing.

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one observed so far. It hails from a time when the universe was rather young. A ...