The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

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

Researchers have discovered something groundbreaking in the world of astrophysics—an incredible system where not one, but a ...

Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping ...

The matter falling into a black hole generates radiation, with faster feeding meaning more radiation. And that radiation can ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory helped identify the “fastest-feeding black hole” - ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

LID-568 was previously identified by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but observing it was challenging due to its faint ...

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