The Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino image

IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our galaxy’s plane and center. Deep-learning tools let researchers identify ...

Strange red object from the early universe could be the first ‘black hole star’

JWST has found an early-universe object that looks star-like but shines about 100 billion times more powerfully than any ...
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JWST Finds Black Hole Star Spectral Signature No Star Can Match: Super-Eddington Growth Confirmed

An object 13 billion light-years away has produced a spectrum that no star, stellar population, or galaxy can explain — and in doing so, it has given astronomers their closest look yet at the physical ...

Mirage or miracle? JWST finds earliest known 'black hole star' at cosmic dawn

Little red dots have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data from the universe's deep past. Their "powering engines" might resemble a newly discovered ...

Two decades of blazar observations, and the mysteries keep piling up

Narrow jets of luminous matter may be emitted toward Earth from the nuclei of active galaxies billions of light-years away.
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JWST’s Little Red Dots May Be Pulsating Monster Stars, Not Black Holes

Harvard CfA researchers published two studies on August 5, 2026, showing pulsating supermassive stars roughly 100,000 times ...