Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing supermassive black hole in the infant universe. Existing just 570 million years after ...

Astronomers have successfully observed the previouslyinvisible corona of a supermassive black hole located in the distant quasar RX J1131, about 6 billion light years from Earth. Using the Atacama ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

These two small (ish) black holes were actually pulled together not by each other, but by a third supermassive black hole.

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a galaxy just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Part of a class of ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Main) An illustration of a feeding supermassive black hole "burping" jets of high-speed matter. ...

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

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...

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