Three years ago, astronomers discovered ancient mysterious objects known as “little red dots.” They exhibit characteristics of both galaxies and supermassive black holes, but they don’t exactly match ...

Five hundred million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a toddler, a tiny red galaxy flickered into being. Astronomers didn’t expect it to hide anything unusual. Yet inside this ...

Here is what you will learn when you read this story: Little red dots (LRDs) observed by the James Webb Space Telescope were initially thought to be galaxies, but something was amiss. Researchers who ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing clues of a dramatic cosmic history. The star, which quietly orbits a ...