The new observations involve a supermassive black hole that existed when the cosmos was about 11% its current age.

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

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

A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The discovery could offer a clue as to ...

Borrowers barely felt interest rates budge after the Fed's first rate cut back in September, and they're not about to get a big bang for their buck Thursday when the Federal Reserve makes its next ...

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

The Big Bang theory suggests that the universe began as a hot, dense point, expanding into the cosmos we observe today.

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...

A low-mass supermassive black hole appears to be consuming matter at over 40 times the theoretical limit. Astronomers using ...

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

The light from this object has traveled all the way from a time 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. Earlier supermassive black holes have been discovered – but none of them can hold a candle to this ...