The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

Astronomers use many methods to determine this number, including gravitational lensing, the universe’s expansion rate, and ...

The black hole appears to be growing at about 2.4 times the Eddington limit, which means it is consuming the equivalent of ...

Scientists ultimately settled on a feeding black hole at the heart of a far-distant galaxy as the most likely engine for 3C 273’s ridiculous luminosity. In fact, by the 1980s astronomers were starting ...

A team of researchers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to discover 12 ancient black holes from 12.9 billion years ago.

A tiny blob of red light spotted at the beginning of the Universe could represent the first direct evidence for a ...

In a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journalletters, scientists confirmed something both exhilarating and unsettling: the universe is expanding in a way that defies our most trusted models ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

Astronomers uncovered seven dust-shrouded quasars from Cosmic Dawn, doubling the known tally of early supermassive black holes.

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after ...

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...