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

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 James Webb Space Telescope has discovered surprisingly large and bright early galaxies. This discovery challenges the ...

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.