The discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe. Hundreds of unexpectedly energetic objects have been discovered throughout the distant universe, possibly ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the brightest, most luminous object in the universe — a quasar that emits light 500 trillion times more intense than that of our sun. Quasars are dazzling ...

Scientists debate whether this object is the brightest in the visible universe, as a new study suggests. By Dennis Overbye Astronomers claimed on Monday that they had discovered what might be the ...

Philip Wiseman works at the University of Southampton and is funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have stumbled upon a puzzling population of galaxies that look far too bright for their age. In four patches of sky, covering more than 500 square ...

Hundreds of unexpectedly energetic objects have been discovered throughout the distant universe, possibly hinting that the cosmos was far more active during its infancy than astronomers once believed.