4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (597+ words) Black holes might be hiding something from us. According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, a simple black hole is surprisingly easy to describe. It has just three main properties: its mass, how fast it spins and its charge. That’s…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (535+ words) The galactic home of these three black holes is called J0148-4214. It lies 12.5 billion light-years away from us, in the very early universe. So we’re seeing it as it appeared about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang, the initiation of our…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (792+ words) Since 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been capturing images that reach back to some of the earliest days of the universe. Intriguingly, mysterious Little Red Dots pepper these images. And on August 12, 2026, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (597+ words) This month, scientists using the preliminary data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory said they had already discovered Rubin’s first ultra-faint satellite galaxy orbiting our home galaxy, the Milky Way. They’ve dubbed the new galaxy Aquarius IV. It’s one of the…...