A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass ...

Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

Fifty million years or so later, gravity drove the formation of the first luminous objects – stars and black holes – which ended the dark ages and initiated the cosmic dawn. These first stars likely ...

Russian astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a unique extremely metal-poor luminous blue variable star ...

Opaque close opaqueA material, object or substance which does not allow light to pass through it. materials are substances which light cannot pass through, like stone, metal or wood. Luminous ...