A black hole weighing roughly 100 million times the mass of our Sun had no business existing when the universe was barely 570 million years old. Yet there it is, buried inside a tiny, reddened galaxy ...

An unusually massive black hole in the very early universe may be a kind of exotic, star-less black hole first theorised by Stephen Hawking. In August, Boyuan Liu at the University of Cambridge and ...

When the light from galaxy CEERS_1019 finally reached the James Webb Space Telescope’s detectors, it had been traveling for more than 13 billion years. What it revealed stunned the team analyzing it: ...

Astronomers wonder, "How did it grow up so fast?" ...

One of the most puzzling findings from the JWST's observations of the early universe is the size of black holes. According to ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered seven supermassive black hole-powered quasars surrounded by veils of dust ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after the Big Bang. New simulations show that early, chaotic galaxies created ...