Scientists spotted an enormous black hole in the early universe that's growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered what may be the brightest object in the universe, a quasar with a black hole at its heart growing so fast that it swallows the equivalent of a sun a ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

By studying the X-ray spectrum collected by Chandra, scientists were able to estimate the black hole’s growth rate, which ...

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from ...

When the "little red dots" were first discovered in 2022, scientists thought the objects might be galaxies as mature as the Milky Way, which is about 13.6 billion years old. That's because galaxies ...

Every now and again I’ll get a weird thought in my head that sits there demanding an answer. Sometimes it’s trivial, and sometimes it sounds silly but then leads to some fun insights. This time my ...

Astronomers have found the largest known structure in the universe. It is 1.4 billion light years across and contains nearly ...

The universe is filled with bizarre objects. Then again, Earth is all we know. So what may seem wild and exotic to us is likely common throughout the cosmos. But that doesn’t take away from the fact ...

Astronomers sometimes stumble upon discoveries that defy common sense. The universe is thought to be about 13.8 billion years old, yet some objects appear to pre-date it. While that sounds impossible, ...