Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

This was a sign that the galaxy's sleeping black hole was waking from its slumber, according to the study published in the ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

Learn why a black hole is becoming active and why experts still can't explain the source of its regular, periodic pattern of ...

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

No explosive birth needed: The discovery suggests this black hole likely formed through direct collapse, a quiet implosion ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves emitted by ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!