A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed just 500 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about 3 ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...

The oldest black hole in the universe has been discovered in a distant galaxy, CAPERS-LRD-z9, shrouded by gas. It existed ...

Learn about the universe's earliest black hole, located within an unusually bright and red galaxy that was born 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have just confirmed the most distant black hole ever found—so far away in both time and space that it offers a ...

Known as little red dots (LRDs), these small, compact, and unusually red galaxies were first observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in extremely distant regions of space.

An extremely red supermassive black hole may have existed in the early cosmos, as per the analysis of photos taken with the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists suggest that the black hole's red ...

Solitary supermassive black holes lurking in less populated areas of the universe feed more often than their more crowded counterparts, a new study reports.

An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the ...