Astronomers sometimes talk about the universe as a series of puzzles that arrive one pixel at a time, and few images capture that better than a single, unresolved red speck at the edge of a ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

You probably imagine NASA hunting for habitable planets, blue worlds, and earth-like atmospheres. Especially signs of life. But lately, telescopes are honing in on something else entirely — tiny red ...

Artist’s impression of a black hole star (not to scale). Mysterious tiny pinpoints of light discovered at the dawn of the universe may be giant spheres of hot gas that are so dense they look like the ...