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

In A Nutshell A black hole in the early universe is eating 13 times faster than a classic physics rule says is possible It’s breaking the “Eddington limit,” a rule of thumb for black hole growth, like ...

This jagged jumble of pixels may look like a rainbow-colored thunderbolt, but it’s actually a spectrum of light gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows the swirling motion of gas and stars ...

In a recent piece for my column The Universe, I wrote about the biggest black holes in the cosmos. These can tip the scales at many billions of times the sun’s mass, outweighing even entire galaxies.