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

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

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

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

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

Some of the darkest objects in the universe are also among its brightest beacons, lighting up entire galaxies while their neighbors stay strangely subdued. The latest generation of supercomputer ...

Black holes don’t just bend space and time. They also expose where our understanding of reality begins to break.  In this ...

"If they were purely made up of stars, they would be the densest galaxies in the universe." ...

Astronomers have confirmed the earliest, most distant black hole yet – and it's surprisingly monstrous for its time. Residing in a galaxy called CAPERS-LRD-z9, it was already approximately 300 million ...

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes ...

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought was possible. Reading time 4 minutes When LIGO broke news of an ...