The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

Artist Ashley Zelinskie's new VR work is called "Twin Quasar." Two roads diverge between a pair of quasars, and I'm sorry I ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and creating a time lapse of the phenomena.

Using the James Webb Space ... supermassive black holes." Stars form when massive clouds of cold hydrogen gas collapse under the weight of their gravity. As the density of matter inside the ...

One possible answer is inside-out growth: As star formation within a galaxy expands outward from the nucleus, less gas is being deposited by supernovas near the accreting black hole, and it ...

However, new insights from the James Webb telescope, which orbits 1 million miles away from Earth, suggests the light from the dots is actually generated by active black holes, also known as ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so ... exist today almost all seem to have a supermassive black hole at their centers, he notes. A subsample of little ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it could help explain why these strange outbursts occur.. Sagittarius A ...

This is a clear sign of a flattened cloud of gas and dust called an accretion disk feeding a supermassive black hole in a central ... explanation could be the "inside-out" growth of galaxies.

NASA's James Webb ... black holes exhibit no sign of star formation when compared to those without active supermassive black holes." Stars form when massive clouds of cold hydrogen gas collapse under ...