Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

Science Supermassive black holes intrigue astronomers with their ability to grow rapidly. A recent discovery reveals an ...

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 ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

Scientists have found the "hungriest" black hole that is "feasting" on matter faster than experts previously thought possible ...

LID-568 was previously identified by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but observing it was challenging due to its faint ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

The discovery of the supermassive black, thought to be within 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, gives astronomers new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory helped identify the “fastest-feeding black hole” - ...