The newly confirmed supermassive black hole at the heart of CAPERS-LRD-z9 is known as an active galactic nucleus (AGN), the ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery by catching a supermassive black hole “in the act” of awakening, located in ...

The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...

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The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

A recent discovery by a team of astronomers centres on a galaxy cluster called CHIPS 1911+4455, located an incredible 6 ...

Jonathan Tan, a research professor in the Department of Astronomy at the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and an astrophysicist at the University of Virginia, has developed a new ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

This deep-space object, known as PKS 1424+240 is a type of active galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole, and it may ...

A new theory suggests all supermassive black holes formed from the universe's first stars powered by dark matter annihilation ...

A research team at the University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center have identified the oldest known supermassive black hole.