When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A drawing shows what the universe might look like when it’s less than 1 billion years old. | Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) When NASA’s next great extraterrestrial observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, opens… Read More »
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have detected a supermassive black hole that appears incredibly massive at “cosmic dawn.” The confusion stems from the fact that this huge void did not appear to be fed by much of the material in the environment at the time; but to reach its enormous size, it… Read More »
Just 900 million years after the Big Bang, a pair of quasars have been discovered spiraling towards a massive merger, illuminating the “cosmic dawn”. They are the first quasar The couple was detected this far back in cosmic time. Quasars are growing rapidly supermassive black holes in the nuclei of the hyperactive galaxies. Showers of… Read More »
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered not one but two of the oldest and most distant galaxies ever seen, and continues to break previous records. The most distant galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, appears to exist approximately 300 million years after the Big Bang and at least 100 million years before the previous record holder. This… Read More »