Gigantic Black Hole Discovered From the Dawn of Time

A giant black hole weighing as much as 12 billion suns was found inside a quasar, a bright astronomical body like the one illustrated here with a black hole at its center

Astronomers find a cosmic monster that pushes theories of the early universe to the limit. They have identified a mammoth black hole weighing as much as 12 billion suns.

Black hole hunters try to solve a cosmic conundrum

A Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Henize 2-10 galaxy, with a hidden supermassive black hole at its center.

Dartmouth astrophysicists and their colleagues have not only proven that a supermassive black hole exists in a place where it isn't supposed to be, but in doing so have opened a new door to what things were like in the early universe.