A pair of quasars that existed when the universe was only 3 billion years old has been spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).
In the modern universe, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and their host galaxies grow together. But this ...
Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...
Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...
Astronomers detected X-ray flashes from the black hole that increased in frequency from one every 18 minutes to one every seven minutes.
The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...
"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...
Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...
A distant supermassive black hole, the mysterious 1ES 1927+654, emits X-ray pulses unlike anything previously recorded, which ...
A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery, ...