A team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover the most distant and oldest black hole ever as it feasts on its host galaxy. The discovery could be a huge step forward in understanding how supermassive black holes reached masses millions of billions of times greater than the Sun in … Read more
NASA scientists have spotted a stunning cosmic fossil that was formed when a supermassive black hole erupted more than 5 million years ago. The team at the space agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center used the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) space telescope with help from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to spot the X-rays that outline cold … Read more
Black circles distort a dense gas field of stars and galaxies. Scientists have discovered gravitational waves arising from a merger of black holes, suggesting that the resulting black hole has settled into a stable, spherical shape. These waves also show that the combo black hole could be much larger than previously thought. When the gravitational … Read more