A recent study published on arXiv has revealed a black hole so massive and so ancient that it challenges long-standing models ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

A black hole with a mass 70 times greater than the Sun was discovered, leaving scientists stunned. "Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Galaxy, according to most of the current ...

A new simulation could help solve one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries—how supermassive black holes formed so rapidly—along with a new one: What are the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are ...

Scientists once thought this tiny galaxy was held together by dark matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An unexpected monster ...

We know little about how young galaxies and their black holes grew up. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The massive "Cosmic ...