To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...

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

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

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

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

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

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...

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 ...