"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...

Unlike active galaxies that endlessly devour nearby matter, these black holes remain in slumber, stirring only momentarily to consume an unlucky passing star. Astronomers from MIT, Columbia University ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its mark by capturing its first-ever observations of tidal disruption events ...

Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long ...

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the universe. The JWST looked ...

These days, we have way more glutinous black holes; the supermassive black hole at the center of our own galaxy has an estimated mass of 4.3 million Suns. But it has had more than 13 billion years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected two galaxies and their supermassive central black holes caught in a merging dance when the universe was only 740 million years old. This makes ...

Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts. The young cosmos is ...

Other supermassive black holes discovered in the early universe have been significantly larger, on the order of a billion solar masses. The black hole inside CEERS 1019, however, is only about 9 ...