A giant supermassive black hole (SMBH) that consumes the mass of the Sun a day has been found to be about one-fifteenth of ...

In the pursuit of space exploration, humans have broken records that were previously thought impossible. At the same time, terrible accidents have marred the history of space flight, making later ...

A supermassive black hole in the far reaches of the Universe has been found guzzling down material at one of the fastest ...

The black hole, named RACS J0320-35, is about a billion times heavier than the Sun. It lies 12.8 billion light years from ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic and luminous explosions in the universe. However, they are fleeting and often ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Telescopes around the world have spotted a monster radio jet streaming from a quasar dating back to the first 1 billion years of the universe. At double the width of our Milky ...

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The fastest-growing black hole in the universe is 34 billion times the mass of our sun and feasts on a meal the equivalent of our sun each day, according to a study. This massive, hungry black hole ...

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

Astronomers have been mapping vast cosmic structures for decades, from galaxy clusters to immense superclusters. But now, researchers have identified what they say is officially the largest known ...

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of ...