A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 119, No. 857, July 2007 Detectors for the James Webb Space Teles... Detectors for the James Webb Space Telescope Near‐Infrared Spectrograph ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

一个经过深入研究的宇宙天体震惊了天文学家。所谓的“失败的恒星”格利泽229B（Gliese 229B）被揭示为两个紧密轨道运行的所谓“褐矮星”，而不是只有一个。 这一发现意味着格利泽229B是一个“前所未有的”紧密褐矮星双星系统，增加了银河系中可能存在其他此类奇异系统等待被发现的希望。这一发现还解决了关于格利泽229B的一个长期谜团，解释了为什么这颗褐矮星的亮度与其质量不符。 “格利泽229B被认 ...

Astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, designated LID-568, that is feeding on matter at an extraordinary rate in ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory helped identify the “fastest-feeding black hole” - ...