According to the model, dark matter may have started as particles that were hot, light, massless, and fast. As the universe ...

The bright outflow jets of J0529 are being fed by a process called Super-Eddington Accretion, where an object exceeds its "Eddington Limit", the maximum brightness at which an object can shine given ...

The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

Astronomers have discovered a primeval but the most pristine star ever found in the universe. According to a research team ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Stephan's Quintet is a four-galaxy merger (with a fifth galaxy photobombing the action) in the ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray ...

An international team of astronomers has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe a well-known ...

Astronomers have a new explanation for mysterious "little red dots" observed in the early universe: Maybe they're not crowded star clusters that upend everything scientists know about galaxies. Maybe ...

A researcher, Heikki Mäntysaari from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland), has been part of an international research group ...

A recent study from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) suggests that our universe was 'pre-heated' when the first stars began to form.

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.