A new analysis of data from the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) reveals fresh evidence that collisions of even very small nuclei with large ones might create tiny ...

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The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the same age as the Milky Way. The “P” in Leo P refers to “pristine,” because ...

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).

In the modern universe, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and their host galaxies grow together. But this ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now a research team has studied hundreds ...

Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...

Astronomers have detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery is the most distant ...

NASA’s Webb telescope uncovers mysterious "little red dots," pointing to the existence and growth of supermassive black holes ...

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Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...