Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole at “cosmic dawn” that seems to be impossibly massive. The confusion comes from the fact that it doesn’t seem like this giant void was feasting on much surrounding matter during that time — but, in order to reach its immense size, […]
An intergalactic ring-shaped superstructure of galaxies and galaxy clusters — so large it defies explanation — has been discovered. This is a structure that lives so deep in the universe that we see it as it was some 9.2 billion years ago. The huge superstructure, nicknamed the “Big Ring,” spans 1.3 billion light-years in diameter […]