About 450 million light-years from Earth, a supermassive black hole is doing something astronomers have long suspected was ...

Black holes are places where gravity is so powerful that nothing — not even light — can escape. Rather than being empty, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted “little red dots” in the universe, and a new X‑ray discovery from the Chandra ...

Something odd is hiding in the early universe, and astronomers are only just beginning to notice it. Using the James Webb ...

"With the James Webb Space Telescope now revealing more supermassive black holes in the early universe, this mechanism may help bridge the gap between theory and observation." ...

"With the James Webb Space Telescope now revealing more supermassive black holes in the early universe, this mechanism may ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched unfold so quickly. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton and the ...

A supermassive black hole binary system (two black holes orbiting each other) has been directly identified in the final stages of orbital decay in all.

The knowledge that the galaxies in this Universe have black holes at their centers came to us gradually, like all things that have to do with space, starting in the 1970s. In the time that has passed ...

Astronomers have spotted a rare, rule-breaking quasar in the early Universe that appears to be growing its central black hole at an astonishing pace. Observations show the black hole is devouring ...