The most exciting yet controversial possibility traces back to a theory proposed by British physicist Stephen Hawking in 1971: that black holes originated from the primordial soup of the Big Bang. If ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they ...

As the universe expands, it feels like it must be spreading out from some initial point. But a physicist explains why that’s ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the ...

In 1925, Edwin Hubble's observation of Cepheid variables in the Andromeda galaxy revolutionized astronomy, proving the ...

EVE Frontier' developers Helgi Freyr Rúnarsson and Guðlaugur Jóhannesson talk galaxy merger models, black holes, and the thin ...

To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and mass. JWST's powerful Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument are ...

An impossibly bright galaxy is forcing scientists to rewrite the rules of the Big Bang’s aftermath. Here’s what you’ll learn ...

JWST and Hubble uncover JWST’s Quintet, a rare five-galaxy merger from the early universe, forming stars at a rapid rate.

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