CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., July 11: Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet using the Webb Space Telescope, but that record isn’t expected to last.

Astronomers have spotted in a galaxy adjacent to our Milky Way what they are calling a cosmic "needle in a haystack" - a black hole that not only is classified as dormant but appears to have been born without the explosion of a dying star.

The world’s first image of the chaotic supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy doesn’t portray a voracious cosmic destroyer but what astronomers Thursday called a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their bustling and crowded center, where light and matter cannot escape, making it extremely hard to get images of them. Light gets bent and twisted around by gravity as it gets sucked into the abyss along with superheated gas and dust. The colorized image unveiled Thursday is from an international consortium behind the Event Horizon Telescope, a collection of eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. Getting a good image was a challenge; previous efforts found the black hole too jumpy. “It burbled and gurgled as we looked at it,” the University of Arizona’s Feryal Ozel said.

VIRGINIA, July 27: More than 100 years ago, Albert Einstein predicted that light is deflected by extremely massive objects, but there is no way to test such powerful effects on Earth.

At the backdrop of the euphoria amongst scientific community about the recent first-ever photo of a black hole last month, one of my colleagues, who was not a science student in his high school, got intrigued by the concept of black hole and things thereof. He kind of posed a challenge to me to make him understand the concept. He felt more enlightened after I tried and simplified things for him. It was then I got an inspiration to write this article with somewhat layman approach to understanding black hole.

WASHINGTON, April 13: The newly pictured supermassive black hole is a beast with no name, at least not an official one. And what happens next could be cosmically confusing.

Soon after the world got its first glimpse of a real-life image of a black hole on Wednesday, a petition started to circulate to name the black hole after the late Chris Cornell, the rock band Soundgarden's frontman.

April 11: It's been a huge day for science. And an even bigger day for female scientists.  Despite the tall order, an international team of more than 200 researchers unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, April 10: An international scientific team on Wednesday announced a milestone in astrophysics - the first-ever photo of a black hole - using a global network of telescopes to gain insight into celestial objects with gravitational fields so strong no matter or light can escape.