Astronomers Trace Elusive High-Energy Neutrino to Star-Forming Galaxy in Early Universe
JCMT0402-0424, a dusty starburst galaxy around 11 billion light-years away, is the strongest candidate yet for the source…
Webb Delivers Strongest-Ever Case for ‘Black Hole Stars’ Lurking in Early Universe
For several years, astronomers have been puzzling over a peculiar population of objects discovered by the NASA/ESA/CSA James…
Discovery of quasar variability and early accretion disk signatures at cosmic dawn
Fausnaugh, M. M. et al. Space Telescope and Optical Reverberation Mapping Project. III. Optical continuum emission and broadband…
Webb Weighs Most Distant Inactive Black Hole Ever Found
A supermassive black hole 6 billion times the mass of the Sun lurks in MRG-M0138, a gravitationally lensed…
Webb Spots Supermassive Black Hole Older Than Its Home Galaxy
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found an enormous black hole in the early Universe…
Violent Collision May Have Destroyed Milky Way’s First Stellar Disk
New simulations suggest a violent collision 11 billion years ago reshaped our Galaxy and triggered a burst of…
The universe is significantly older than previously thought, astronomers find
Galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope have been causing trouble for the standard story of cosmic…
Massive black hole from the early universe has astronomers looking back to the Big Bang
Far back in cosmic time, one small red object is refusing to behave. Abell 2744–QSO1 appears just 700…
Extreme galaxy-scale outflows are frequent among luminous early quasars
Carnall, A. C. et al. A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658. Nature 619, 716–719 (2023). Article ADS …
A dead galaxy from the early universe is forcing astronomers to rethink galactic evolution
Space tends to reward expectations. Young galaxies should spin. Gas falls in, gravity takes hold, angular momentum builds,…
Webb Discovers Slow-Rotating Galaxy in Early Universe
In today’s Universe, most galaxies are held together by orderly rotation. But among the largest, no-longer star-forming systems,…
A massive and evolved slow-rotating galaxy in the early Universe
Cappellari, M. et al. The SAURON project – X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting…