Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have separated the light of a quasar from the light of its surrounding stars ...
Einstein's general theory of relativity predicted that so-called 'plunging regions' around black holes would accelerate ...
Webb’s 120-hour observations reveal that some of the “earliest monster black holes grew from massive cosmic seeds.” “After ...
MIT astronomers observed starlight around ancient quasars, offering insights into early black holes and galaxies.
MIT astronomers have observed the elusive starlight surrounding some of the earliest quasars in the universe. The distant ...
The eccentricity in the orbits of these black holes, detected using gravitational waves, could tell the story of their ...
“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” This famous quote by Isaac Newton points to an axiom that lies at the heart of The Sciences — knowledge ...
Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have harnessed the JWST for some eye-opening discoveries.
A computer-generated image of a black hole in front a rich star field. The black hole distorts starlight into a brilliant ring around itself. A black hole is a region in space where gravity has ...
Storchi Bergmann became internationally known in her field when she published a study in 1993 in which she provided indirect evidence that there was an active supermassive black hole in the center of ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have gotten the first-ever look at the light of ancient stars shining around some of the biggest, brightest and oldest black holes in the ...