image: These three objects (JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0 and JADES-GS-z11-0) were originally identified as galaxies in December 2022 by the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). Now, a team including Katherine Freese of the University of Texas at Austin speculates that they may actually be dark stars, theoretical objects much larger and brighter than our sun, powered … Read more
In 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after ingesting Tylenol mixed with cyanide, and Lewis was the longtime suspect in their deaths. He was never charged with poisoning, but was convicted of attempting to extort $1 million from pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson and sentenced to 12 years behind bars. James W. Lewis … Read more
An illustration of two neutron stars colliding and merging. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have traced an incredibly bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) back to its source, a violent collision between two neutron stars. The ring on her finger likely contains atoms forged in neutron star collisions like this one, also known as … Read more
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Northrup Grumman After[{” attribute=””>James Webb Space Telescopes first year in service, astronomers are awash in new observations that illuminate the oldest stars and galaxies. In its first year on the job, NASAs James Webb Space Telescope has performed in ways that can only … Read more
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date. The galaxy that hosts the ancient black hole, CEERS 1019, formed quite early in the history of the universe, just 570 million years after the Big Bang. The active supermassive black hole at the center of CEERS 1019 … Read more
