It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic ...

"It is exciting to think that Little Red Dots may represent the first direct observational evidence of the birth of the most ...

New simulations suggest early black holes grew rapidly through intense feeding, helping explain why massive black holes appeared so soon after the Big Bang ...

"We're seeing what could be described as an energetic tug-of-war inside the black hole's accretion flow." ...

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...

Three billion years after the Big Bang, a massive galaxy already looked like it had run out of time. It spun in a calm, ...

The gaseous cocoons surrounding "little red dots" hint at their true nature, a new James Webb telescope study hints.

A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has found hundreds of distant and apparently bright galaxies dubbed ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...