"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive black holes that are 1,000 times too massive.

They range from millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun, and exhibit a range of activity levels, from ravenously rampageous as they scarf down matter at a tremendous rate, to calm and ...

The black hole is huge—400 million times the mass of our sun—making it one of the most massive black holes discovered by Webb at this point in the universe's development. The black hole is so ...

Dr Wolf says the brighter the quasar, the faster the black hole is growing - and this one is a hungry cosmic hurricane, gobbling up the equivalent of one sun per day. "Many people have already ...

That timeline means that this supermassive black hole, estimated to have a mass around 200 million times that of the sun, existed in a vital cosmic period known as the "epoch of reionization." ...

The mass of the black hole in the new observations, called 1ES 1927+654, is about a million times greater than the mass of our sun. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ...