"It's an elegant answer, really, because we thought it was a tiny galaxy full of many separate cold stars, but it's actually, ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...

The newfound object, dubbed "the Cliff," suggests that the little red dots represent a totally new class of cosmic objects known as a "black hole star," the researchers say. This newly hypothesized ...

The discovery of a large population of compact, red objects, now widely known as Little Red Dots (LRDs) is one of the most ...

In a new study, a team of astronomers focused on one particular little red dot that existed 1.8 billion years after the Big Bang. The object was originally identified in the Red Unknowns: Bright ...

Some of the mysterious pinpricks of light at the dawn of the Universe could be a type of object we've never seen before.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Analyzing images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a group of astronomers led by Dr. Lukas Furtak and Prof. Adi Zitrin from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has detected an extremely red, ...

Innumerable stars reside within 1.6 light-years of the Milky Way’s central black hole. But this same crowded neighborhood has fewer red giants — luminous stars that are large and cool — than expected.

Powerful jets launched from Sagittarius A* may have stripped the stars' atmospheres away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Paul M.

An eerie, blood-red orb of light was recently photographed in the night sky above Texas after SpaceX launched a satellite-laden rocket into space. The increasingly common phenomenon, known as a ...