If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

First and perhaps most perplexingly, researchers remain unsure about what exactly dark matter is. Originally, some scientists ...

Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

A paper links dark stars to Webb telescope puzzles involving bright sources, dust-free galaxies, and early black holes.

The gravitational lens JVAS B1938+666 consists of massive bodies ranging from 6.5 billion to 11 billion light-years away, ...

Some of the most puzzling worlds in our telescopes’ catalogs may not be worlds at all, but relics from the first instants ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

The Webb Telescope may have witnessed the birth of a supermassive black hole, revealing a faster path for these cosmic giants.

The Circinus galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues to ...

New research explores how dark stars, powered by dark matter, could account for puzzling observations from the early universe ...

Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are holes.