A supermassive black hole in galaxy LID-568 is devouring matter 40 times faster than expected, breaking the Eddington limit and providing insight into early Universe black hole growth.

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

Perhaps the greatest tool astronomers have is the ability to look backward in time. Since starlight takes time to reach us, ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

A new observation by astronomers could change everything we know about the early years of the universe. Scientists have detected a greedy low-mass supermassive black hole which is growing extremely ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

Webb's high-resolution instruments uncover distant objects, enabling studies of early stars, galaxies, and habitable ...

Scientists believe that about 14 billion years ago, during the Big Bang, an unidentified energy made the universe expand ...

An almost impossible alignment of galaxies that forms a giant magnifying lens could give astronomers an unprecedented deep view of the universe. The Carousel Lens—named for its concentric circular ...

Earth is the only known place where humanity exists — where humanity can exist. It is the only known place where laughter, ...

The Very Large Array is one of the largest telescopes on Earth and a remarkable achievement in science and engineering.