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

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

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...