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 ...

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

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

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy that is defying conventional understanding. Growing ...

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

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

This black hole’s ‘feast’ could help astronomers explain how supermassive black holes grew so quickly in the early Universe.

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

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...