A black hole weighing roughly 50 million times the mass of the Sun has been directly measured inside a faint, compact object ...

Some of the unusually massive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in the early universe may have ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observes Abell2744-QSO1, which appears three times in this image due to gravitational lensing of the galaxy cluster. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Lukas Furtak /Alyssa ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a super-size black hole harkening back to almost the dawn of creation. It's the farthest black hole ever found. A team led by the Carnegie ...

Astronomers studying a population of unusually X-ray-silent and overmassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space ...

A team led by Vasily Kokorev at the University of Texas at Austin published the most detailed spectrum ever obtained for a "little red dot" on June 10, 2026, and the data overwhelmingly supports a ...

When astronomers glimpsed the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in July 2022, they saw the kind of universe most of them have come to expect. There were dazzling blue bursts of ...

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs in James Webb data might be. When the James Webb space telescope began ...

Rodrigo Nemmen is in the Department of Astronomy, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, University of São Paulo, São Paulo 05508-090, Brazil. Read the paper: Little red dots as ...

Astronomers have found a potential new piece of the ongoing puzzle over “little red dots” (LRDs). It’s a distant smudge in the sky reminiscent of the mysteriously compact, crimson orbs that keep ...