The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

A 13.3 billion-year-old black hole—the most distant ever discovered—has been observed by an international team of astronomers, providing new insights into the early universe.

Astronomers have just confirmed the most distant black hole ever found—so far away in both time and space that it offers a ...

Astronomers have found one of the heaviest black holes ever measured, sitting in the heart of a distant galaxy and coming in well above what scientists would normally expect for a galaxy of its size.

A sleeping ultramassive black hole, 36 billion times the Sun’s mass, is warping light 5 billion light-years from Earth.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another ...

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have discovered an early universe supermassive black hole ...

An international team of astronomers led by The University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center has confirmed the most ...

An international team of astronomers has identified the earliest black hole ever confirmed, an ancient behemoth that existed ...

A newly surfaced NASA directive reveals a fast-tracked effort by the United States to deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon ...

I’m an astrophysicist who studies galaxies and supermassive black holes, and the Webb telescope is an incredible tool for ...

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...