CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a ...

A mysterious object has been detected at the edge of the universe, sparking curiosity and debate within the scientific community. As researchers scramble to understand its origins and purpose, ...

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“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” Carl Sagan once warned a maxim now resonating through telescopes worldwide as astronomers grapple with a mind-bending new discovery. The James ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

How many of us have ever attempted to imagine how vast the universe is? From our point of view, the universe is a large and endless spread with tiny blinking objects. However, like everything around ...

(CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current ...