Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have spotted an extremely bright red spot in the early universe. The object resembles an ...

Astronomers may have discovered a bizarre new type of star with a black hole at its center.

BH-1, a quasi-star hiding a 100,000-solar-mass black hole 13 billion light-years away - the first of its kind ever observed.

Freshly spotted, but probably already dead.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a bizarre object from just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang that looks like an enormous star but shines far too brightly ...

First glimpsed as “little red dots” in deep-space images from the James Webb Space Telescope, these giant, gas-shrouded black holes are full of surprises ...

A survey using the space telescope JWST has found evidence of a peculiar star-like quality in a black hole from the early ...

The newly discovered object looks like a star the size of our solar system, but produces 100 billion times more energy than ...

Researchers have named their discovery MoM-BH*-1, which references the survey that found it, its new classification, and what will likely be the first of more black hole stars to come. Many other red ...

What it actually is is weirder.