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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

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

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

A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The ...

Black hole in ULAS J1120+0641 has record mass compared to its galaxy. Quasar's black hole is 1.4 billion solar masses, half its galaxy's mass. Astronomers used JWST to uncover details about this ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy that is consuming matter at an extraordinary rate, surpassing the theoretical Eddington limit by more than 40 times.

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