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A collection of “little red dots” spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and D. Kocevski (Colby U.)/Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach Impossibly bright galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may not be so bright after all. These galaxies once…

Some of the faintest sources in James Webb Space Telescope images don’t fit neatly into existing categories. Appearing as compact red points in deep views of the early universe, they show up at very early times and then largely disappear a few hundred million years later. A new study published…

Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three years ago. Now, a new study finds the strange features of little red dots might be explained by supermassive black holes in disguise during their youth. With the help of NASA's $10…

An illustration of a black hole shrouded in dust. Strange 'little red dots' discovered by the James Webb telescope may be young black holes cocooned in ancient dust clouds, new research hints. (Image credit: Getty Images) Scientists may have finally pinned down the nature of some of the most baffling…

Researchers have discovered a rule-breaking "bow shock" surrounding the white dwarf RXJ0528+2838, located around 730 light-years from Earth. The puzzling structure contains a multicolored nebula of gas and dust. (Image credit: ESO/K. Iłkiewicz and S. Scaringi et al. Background: PanSTARRS) Stunned astronomers have discovered a zombie star relatively near Earth…

An image of galaxy GS-10578, or "Pablo's Galaxy", which astronomers think was starved of its star-forming gas due to a supermassive black hole. (Image credit: JADES Collaboration) New observations of a strange galaxy show it was slowly starved to death by its own black hole . Two telescopes peered deep…

Monika Luabeya Jan 13, 2026 In this photo from early January 2026, teams prepare to encapsulate NASA’s Pandora small satellite, NASA-sponsored Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), and the Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat, inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Pandora…

Scattered throughout the universe are colossal galaxies that appear to be dead, no longer capable of forming new stars. One of the oldest dead galaxies has just recently been surveyed, confirming that its death sentence was set by a black hole that whittled away at its most important star-making resource.…

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January 8, 2026 4 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Weird, Wobbling Black Hole Jets Can Shape Entire Galaxies A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have never seen anything quite like it before By Jacek Krywko…