Roberto Maiolino

Astronomers refined the mass of three extremely distant galaxies using Webb, and it turned out: invisible dust can distort our estimates more than we imagined, but even with corrections, two galaxies remain monstrously massive for their young age.

Scientists have explained the mystery of "red dots" in the early Universe: it's all about the viewing angle. If an active core is seen edge-on, dust makes it dim and red; face-on — bright and blue. Like a flashlight wrapped in red tape: straight on, the light is white; from the side, it's red.

Near the galaxy GN-z11, seen just 400 million years after the Big Bang, the James Webb Space Telescope spotted a bright spot. It glows with hot helium — such radiation can only come from very massive stars devoid of heavy elements, that is, the first generation. If confirmed, we are seeing for the f

New data from the JWST telescope on galaxy NGC 4696 in the Centaurus cluster have for the first time traced the kinematic connection between large-scale filaments and a compact circumnuclear disk with a radius of about 120 parsecs. The S-shaped structure, familiar from Hubble images, turned out to b

In the young universe, telescopes found many reddish dots. A new explanation: these are huge black holes that we see from the side. The gas disk around them blocks the most energetic radiation, allowing only dim red light and hydrogen glow. A similar object exists right in the Milky Way. If viewed f

For decades astronomers puzzled over mysterious anti-correlations of light elements in globular clusters. New research based on high-resolution cosmological simulations shows: the chemical anomalies could have arisen long before the birth of the cluster's first stars—in giant gas clouds. This scenar