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Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.

Sixteen new faculty joined the MIT departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics in 2023 as professors and scientists.

We're entering a new era of astrophysics. The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists test existing ideas and models of how the universe was created—on a whole new level. This telescope is sending back images of galaxies forming under a billion years after the Big Bang—way earlier than astronomers had previously expected. Not only that, scientists had anticipated that later—but still very early—galaxies would be small, barely formed blobs; instead, the galaxies in these ima...

During star formation, bright light can outshine background light from long-standing galaxies, affecting Webbs view of the early Universe.

Salon spoke with Dr. Michelle Thaller on the beloved telescope and why NASA scientists love "Lord of the Rings"

Peering back into the distant past, astronomers are prying apart the secrets of when the Universe switched on its lights.

James Webb has helped uncover even more information about one of the main sources of the early universe's evolution.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture an image of an extremely bright quasar. A quasar is a black hole releasing intense radiation as it feeds on bounties of cosmic matter.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have determined that stars in early galaxies transformed the gas throughout the universe from opaque to transparent.

Plus, the lauded telescope detected the most extensive spray of water ever seen in space from Saturn's frozen moon