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Artist’s impression of quasar J0313-1806

Artist Illustration of Early-Universe Quasar Cosmic Neighborhood

Artist’s Impression of Fastest-feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe

Illustration of Double Quasars in Merging Galaxies

Comparison of EHT and EHT Reconstructed with PRIMO

Pōniuāʻena, the second most distant quasar ever discovered

Astronomers detect most energetic outflow from a distant quasar

Fast, Furious, Refined: Smaller Black Holes Can Eat Plenty

Artist’s Impression of Fastest-feeding Black Hole in the Early Universe

Artist’s impression of quasar J0313-1806 (labelled)

Gemini Focuses on a Mid-sized Galactic Black Hole

Gargantua in the Mist: A Precocious Black Hole Behemoth at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn

Elusive Binary Black Hole System Identified

Billion Solar Mass Black Hole

Seed Black Hole, 100 Million Years after the Big Bang

Artist’s conception of the central portion of the galaxy that hosts the quasar SDSS J135246.37+423923.5 viewed at infrared wavelengths

Artist’s conception of the central portion of the galaxy that hosts the quasar SDSS J135246.37+423923.5 viewed at optical wavelengths

Astronomers find ‘teeny supermassive black hole’

Field around quasar pair (circled) QP0110-0219

2020 Breakthrough Prize Awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Team

Lonely Black Hole Relic Shines Light on Young Universe

Spectacular Star Cluster May Host Black Hole Missing Link

Heaviest Stellar Black Hole Discovered in Nearby Galaxy

Artist's conception of surrounding of the black hole in NGC 106

Gargantua in the Mist: A Precocious Black Hole Behemoth at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn

Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction

Gargantua in the Mist: A Precocious Black Hole Behemoth at the Edge of Cosmic Dawn

Two Record-Breaking Black Holes Found Hiding Nearby

Fast, Furious, Refined: Smaller Black Holes Can Eat Plenty

Artist’s Impression of Early-Universe Dwarf Galaxy

Cosmic Forge of Rare Heavy Elements Discovered

Two Record-Breaking Black Holes Found Hiding Nearby

The Most Distant Quasar: Both Headache And Opportunity

Sagittarius A* in Different Light

Cosmic Telescope Zooms in on the Beginning of Time

Lonely Black Hole Relic Shines Light on Young Universe

Color composite-image of IMS J2204+0111