NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observations show galaxies were already releasing oxygen, carbon and silicon into surrounding space just 500 million years after the Big Bang; the early universe was less pristine than expected

Representative image from Canva The young universe may have become chemically enriched far earlier than astronomers…

Hyderabad-born MIT astronomer Rohan Naidu helps uncover a possible ‘black hole star’ from the early universe

For billions of years, the universe has hidden its strangest secrets in faint, ancient light. Now,…

Meet Rohan Naidu, the MIT astronomer who left engineering at 18; now he is helping uncover how the Universe’s earliest black holes formed

Image(s): Left/Department of Physics, MIT/Right/MoM-BH*-1 A Hyderabad-born astronomer who left engineering school at 18 and counts…

James Webb’s ‘little red dots’ may be 100,000-sun monster stars; their collapse could have seeded the universe’s first giant black holes

‘Little red dots’ may be pulsating monster stars that created early-universe black holes, study finds Mysterious,…

Hubble has spotted ‘impossible’ light in deep space, and scientists are trying to explain where it came from

Astronomers have detected light from a tiny but powerful galaxy that existed when the universe was…