Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...
Astronomers had been watching a galaxy far, far away for a long time. It seemed unremarkable. But in December 2019, it suddenly started shining brighter than ever. Now, astronomers believe they ...
The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...
To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...
A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The ...
NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope spotted the supermassive black hole attacking a second star with the remains of a fresh "kill" like the star of the Halloween franchise. With Halloween ...