Named LID-568, this 7.2-million-solar-mass black hole appears to be feeding on matter at a rate 40 times its Eddington limit and is seen as it existed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.

“In recent years, a series of new discoveries have enriched our knowledge of their diversity, behaviors, ontogeny and reproductive biology.” “With over 40 genera named, unquestionable oviraptorosaurs ...

Dedicated to the Egyptian deity Khnum, the temple of Esna is one of the last examples of ancient Egyptian temple architecture. Only the vestibule, called the pronaos, of the original temple complex ...

Archaeologists in Armenia have discovered the remains of an early Christian church at the site of the ancient city of Artaxata. Artaxata, also known as Artashat, was a major city of ancient Armenia ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation, which is characterized by irregular alternations between anomalously warm (El Niño) and cold (La Niña) conditions, was present at least 250 million years in the past, ...

The newly-discovered species belongs to Trichothraupis, a genus that was established in 1851 and, until now, included only one species: the black-goggled tanager (Trichothraupis melanops). These ...

The end-Triassic extinction along with the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous events are the most severe mass extinctions in the past 270 million years. The exact mechanisms of the end-Triassic extinction ...

Northwestern Arabia — the region between Mecca and Aqaba — during the Bronze Age was dotted with interconnected monumental walled oases centered around small fortified towns such as the ...

A research team led by John Innes Centre scientists has sequenced and annotated the chromosome-scale genome assembly of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus), a promising legume crop with tolerance to a wide ...

At a distance of about 1,400 parsecs (4,600 light-years), Cygnus OB2 is the closest massive young association to the Sun. It contains hundreds of massive stars as well as thousands of lower-mass stars ...

Archaeologists from the University of Granada say they have uncovered the remnants of the ancient Roman forum in Ubrique, Andalusia, Spain. “The main objective of the excavation was to confirm the ...

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of Jurassic cockroach, Alderblattina simmsi, based on an isolated wing found in Gloucestershire, the United Kingdom. “Insects are the most ...