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James Webb telescope spots earliest black hole in the known universe, looking 'as far back as you can practically go'Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, and found that it may contain the earliest known black hole in the universe.
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Paperclip-sized spacecraft could visit a nearby black hole in the next century, study claimsAn astrophysicist has made a daring proposal to send a nano-sized spacecraft to the heart of a black hole.
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Exotic 'blazar' is part of most extreme double black hole system ever found, crooked jet suggestsA beam of particles speeding away from a monstrous black hole is severely kinked, suggesting that the black hole is actually part of the most extreme binary system known.
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See the universe's rarest type of black hole slurp up a star in stunning animationAstronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have re-created the stellar murder in a stunning new animation.
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Scientists detect most massive black hole merger ever — and it birthed a monster 225 times as massive as the sunNew gravitational wave findings from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration report the discovery of the largest black hole merger ever. It could lead to evidence of an extremely rare type of black hole.
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This supermassive black hole is eating way too quickly — and 'burping' at near-light speedsUsing the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding supermassive black hole.
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'Artificial intelligence is not a miracle cure': Nobel laureate raises questions about AI-generated image of black hole spinning at the heart of our galaxyResearchers have used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. But some experts are skeptical of the results.
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Monster black hole jet from the early universe is basking in the 'afterglow' of the Big BangNASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself."
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Astronomers discover most powerful cosmic explosions since the Big BangAstronomers have discovered a new class of bright, long-lasting cosmic explosions that offer a new probe into studying the universe's most distant black holes.
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