The early universe has a lot more massive black holes than suspected.

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

Astronomers may have finally cracked one of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how black holes grew so enormous so fast after ...

Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...

Black holes like the one shown in this illustration can grow astonishingly massive by feeding on immense amounts of matter. But just how big can they get? In the early 1960s astronomers discovered a ...

If the thought of a supermassive black hole terrifies you, a new study may provide some relief. Scientists say that these galactic giants might not actually be as big as we thought. Researchers from ...

Astronomers have long chased a hard question: how did black holes grow so huge so fast. Researchers at Maynooth University in ...

The puzzle of how supermassive black holes grew so large just after the Big Bang could soon be solved. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Black holes in the early Universe appear to have grown far faster than scientists once believed. Astronomers have long struggled to explain how black holes became enormous so early in the Universe’s ...

The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas from their corner of the ...