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

That means nothing can sit still around a rotating black hole, including the "plates" that these cosmic titans feed from.

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs ... The JWST has shown us the errors in our models of black hole growth by finding quasars ...

A supermassive black hole at the centre of a distant Galaxy, devouring matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly feeding black hole in a dwarf galaxy from the early universe, shedding light on how ...

A low-mass supermassive black hole appears to be consuming matter at over 40 times the theoretical limit. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope discovered LID-568, a supermassive black hole ...

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

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 ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

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