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 ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found compelling evidence of a possible exoplanet orbiting ...

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.

Scientists have found the earliest black hole in the universe that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The discovery was revealed in a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal ...

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.

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

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

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an astonishing black hole. It was only just measured by scientists who managed ...

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