It is not quite understood why we are able to observe supermassive black holes (SMBHs) early in our universe’s history. Leading theories can be separated into two camps.

Once a star has exhausted the nuclear fuel available in its core, it can no longer exert the necessary outward pressure to counteract the gravitational pressure from its own mass.

Brown dwarfs are substellar objects that occupy the gap between the largest planets and the smallest stars.

Following the formation of baryonic matter just after the Big Bang, the universe entered a period known as the dark ages, where this matter drifted aimlessly through an otherwise empty cosmos.

Maximilian Häberle, a Phd student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), is the lead author of a recently published study on the discovery of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) at the centre of the Omega Ce

Observations of black holes in the universe reveal that they exhibit a wide range of masses. However, there is a significant gap in our understanding between the lightest and heaviest black holes.

Classical Cepheid variables are a special class of stars that exhibit period variation in their observed brightness. These are typically young population III stars with high masses, usually 3 – 30 solar masses.

There are three primary techniques for studying binary star systems. The first technique, direct imaging, allows astronomers to visually resolve both stars in the binary system when they are sufficiently separated.

Earth's geology is uniquely characterised, within the solar system, by its layered differentiation and active plate tectonics, facilitating ongoing crustal recycling.

Theories about the first black holes suggest they formed shortly after the Big Bang, either as "heavy seeds" born from the direct collapse of massive gas clouds or as smaller "light seeds" from the remnants of early stars

Since its launch in late 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revolutionized our view of the universe, giving us unprecedented details of distant galaxies and stars.

Magnetars are a special class of neutron stars, which are characterised by their extraordinarily potent magnetic fields, some of the strongest known in the universe.