Astronomers have spotted a black hole that dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, which is gobbling up matter at an astonishing rate. According to their calculations, the black hole ...

Astronomers discovered a black hole, LID-568, in the early universe growing faster than theoretical limits, discussing how ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy that is consuming matter at an extraordinary rate, surpassing the theoretical Eddington limit by more than 40 times.

Astronomers have detected the hungriest black hole in the early universe with the help of Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). It has been found that the black hole ...

The new Webb observations involve a supermassive black hole called LID-568 that existed when the cosmos was about 11% its current age - about 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang event 13.8 billion ...

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

Black hole LID-568 consumes matter 40 times its theoretical limit. Discovery aids understanding of supermassive black hole ...

"Owing to its faint nature, the detection of LID-568 would be impossible without JWST. Using the integral field spectrograph ...

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