The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even billions of times the Sun’s mass in less than a billion years. Astronomers have ...

When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

Astronomers generally assume that active galaxies may shift and flicker, since their central supermassive black holes tend to ...

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...

Scientists have discovered that the redshift galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 has an unusually large accretion black hole for its ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

For years, we’ve been told that black holes are the ultimate cosmic vacuum cleaners. Once something crosses its event horizon ...

"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...