A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...

"When looking for black holes, this is about as far back as you can practically go," Anthony Taylor, a postdoctoral fellow at the Cosmic Frontier Center at the University of Texas at Austin, who ...

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the ...

The oldest and most distant black hole known to scientists dates back 13.3 billion years ago, when our universe was still in its teething stage, according to findings published this month.

Until now, the most massive back hole merger was GW190521, detected in 2020. It produced a new black hole with an intermediate mass—about 140 times as heavy as our Sun.

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier Center say they can now confirm CAPERS-LRD-z9 contains the oldest supermassive ...