Astronomers have spotted the brightest known object in the universe, and it’s a quasar powered by the fastest-growing black hole on record, according to a new study. Initially classified as a star, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The black ring and central dot show infrared image of a distant galaxy distorted by a gravitation lens. (CREDIT: Devon Powell, Max ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A mysterious reddish object that formed only 90 million years after the Big Bang was observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. If it is a galaxy, ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a ...

Dark matter is believed to make up more than 80 percent of all matter in the universe, but what it actually is remains a mystery. Now, astronomers have found something that gives us a major clue. This ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: As NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope peers deeper and deeper into time, it keeps making stranger discoveries. Case in point: What exactly is the ...