When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This blue horseshoe is a distant galaxy magnified and distorted by the strong gravitational pull ...

If you point your spaceship toward the constellation Leo, fire your thrusters, and travel about 5 billion light-years, you’ll find yourself in the vicinity of the Cosmic Horseshoe, home to what might ...

Astronomers have reported a colossal find in a famous warped ring of light. Inside the galaxy that forms the Cosmic Horseshoe, researchers measured a black hole weighing 36 billion suns. The inner ...

It sits in the heart of a galaxy so massive it bends light into the shape of a giant horseshoe. And within that galaxy lurks an even greater monster: a black hole 36 billion times the mass of our Sun.

A gargantuan black hole hiding in a galaxy 5 billion light years away is the most massive that has been directly measured, more than 10,000 times as massive as the supermassive black hole at the ...

The cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper limit of what is possible in the universe and is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. (Nanowerk ...

Scientists find most massive black hole ever detected in distant cosmic horseshoe The black hole spotted 5 billion light-years away is a whopping 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at the center ...

Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in the universe. A team from NTNU suggests that colossal winds from ...

Black holes remain at the forefront of contemporary physics, challenging our understanding of gravity and the fabric of spacetime. Central to this intrigue is the cosmic censorship conjecture, which ...