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Thought to be some kind of galaxy, the Little Red Dots were spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and have stumped astronomers for years.

Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery

By Frank Landymore

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have observed a quasar-powered galaxy lasering its opponent with a crippling beam of radiation.

Astronomers Intrigued by Galaxy Blasting Its Neighbor With Giant Energy Beam

By Frank Landymore

The mysterious dark matter "bridge" found inside the Perseus cluster could reveal key details about the cluster's evolution.

Scientists Intrigued by Bridge of Dark Matter Inside Huge Galaxy Cluster

By Frank Landymore

The dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our own, have an extremely strange distribution that's puzzling astronomers.

Astronomers Confused to Discover That a Bunch of Nearby Galaxies Are Pointing Directly at Us

By Frank Landymore

A new study suggests our observable universe may be trapped inside a black hole after examining a James Webb Space Telescope survey.

Scientist Says He Found Evidence Our Entire Universe Is Trapped Inside a Black Hole

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers say they've detected a mysterious type of signal known as a fast radio burst coming from an ancient, dead galaxy.

Strange Signal Coming From Dead Galaxy, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery for the first time of a galaxy growing from the "inside-out."

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Telescope Captures Spectacular Images of “Inside-Out” Galaxy Being Born

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists have determined that a supermassive black hole is starving a galaxy of essential materials to make new stars.

Scientists Spot Giant Black Hole Destroying Galaxy

By Sharon Adarlo

Captured by the James Webb, the Little Red Dots indicate galaxies we've never seen before, and what's inside them is unclear.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Puzzled by Hundreds of Little Red Dots in James Webb Images of Distant Universe

By Frank Landymore

Researchers suggest the outer boundary of the Milky Way may stretch much farther than initially thought and is already touching Andromeda.

Our Galaxy Appears to Be Touching Another Galaxy, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Two streams of stars that formed over 12 billion years ago have been discovered at the center of our galaxy.

Ancient Structures Wound Together to Form Our Galaxy, Astronomers Find

By Frank Landymore

Known as the Radcliffe Wave, astronomers have discovered that this chain of stars, gas, and dust is propagating like a wave, too.

Galactic Wave May Have Crossed Paths With Earth, Scientists Find

By Frank Landymore

Formed just 800 million years after the Big Bang, the galaxy defies our understanding of dark matter's role in the early years of the cosmos.

James Webb Space Telescope

Scientists Befuddled by Impossible Galaxy Seen by James Webb

By Frank Landymore

The megastructure is over 1.3 billion light years across, challenging our current understanding of cosmology.

Astronomers Puzzled by Cosmic Megastructure So Large It Shouldn’t Exist

By Frank Landymore

The galaxy is rich in gas but contains no visible stars. Astronomers believe it could be the first dark, primordial galaxy ever found.

Astronomers Puzzled by Galaxy With No Stars

By Frank Landymore