New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy ...

What are the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope? These X-rays may offer a clue.

"With the James Webb Space Telescope now revealing more supermassive black holes in the early universe, this mechanism may help bridge the gap between theory and observation." ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

A growing mystery in astronomy is the presence of gargantuan black holes—some weighing as much as a billion suns—existing less than a billion years after the Big Bang. According to the standard theory ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed a supermassive black hole in galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, part of galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223. Credit; ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Rihtaršič (University of ...

Using observations gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers have revealed that one supermassive black hole in the early universe must have formed before ...

At the centres of many galaxies lie supermassive black holes with masses millions or even billions of times greater than the ...

Scientists have captured stunning new insights into one of the universe’s most powerful phenomena—black hole jets—by using a planet-sized network of radio telescopes. Focusing on Cygnus X-1, one of ...