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Researchers have discovered the oldest black hole ever observed, dating from the dawn of the universe, and found that it is ‘eating’ its host galaxy to death.

An international team of astronomers led by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge has used data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to discover methane and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of K2-18 b, an exoplanet in the ‘Goldilocks zone’. This is the first time that carbon-based molecules have been discovered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the habitable zone.

For the first time, the has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early universe.

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? ̽»¨Ö±²¥James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, is already providing new insights into this question.

New findings confirm that JWST has surpassed the Hubble telescope in its ability to observe the early Universe

Astronomers have observed directly for the first time how intense light from stars can ‘push’ matter. Researchers from the universities of Cambridge and Sydney made the observation when tracking a giant plume of dust generated by the violent interactions between two massive stars.