To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

This low-mass supermassive black hole, spotted with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Black hole in ULAS J1120+0641 has record mass compared to its galaxy. Quasar's black hole is 1.4 billion solar masses, half its galaxy's mass. Astronomers used JWST to uncover details about this ...

A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy that is consuming matter at an extraordinary rate, surpassing the theoretical Eddington limit by more than 40 times.