Scientists uncover the universe’s most massive object, glowing yellow, blue, and pink at 100 million °C, while a true inferno ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

Space is dark, which makes finding bright things like stars pretty darn easy. It also makes it possible for high-powered telescopes to spot things that are very, very far away, and researchers now ...

Astronomers have spotted the brightest known object in the universe, and it’s a quasar powered by the fastest-growing black hole on record, according to a new study. Initially classified as a star, ...

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Scientists may have glimpsed some of the oldest material in the universe. According to a new, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, researchers found an unidentified object nearly 13.5 billion light years ...

A gamma-ray burst from about 13 billion light years away has become the most distant object in the known universe. Edo Berger of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics offers his insight ...

University of Leicester provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Active galaxies are some of the most luminous and impressive objects in the sky. They tend to be massive, distant and emit ...

With the aid of a multinational network of radio telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever found in the universe. The mysterious object, roughly one million ...

Space is dark, which makes finding bright things like stars pretty darn easy. It also makes it possible for high-powered telescopes to spot things that are very, very far away, and researchers now ...

A faraway galaxy is blasting out the brightest radio emissions ever detected from 13 billion light-years away, and astronomers say this ultra-luminous celestial object — what's known as a quasar — ...

You'll need more than sunglasses to look at this shiny object in the sky. The brightest object in the universe has been discovered, a quasar from when the universe was just 7 percent of its current ...