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 ...

What just happened? Astronomers have identified what may be the largest black hole ever discovered – one with a mass 36 billion times that of our Sun. Located at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe ...

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 ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

But the supermassive black hole lurking at the core of NGC 3783 is 30 million times the mass of our humble sun, and the ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

X-ray telescopes catch a black hole firing ultra-fast winds at 60,000 km/s, revealing how flares trigger extreme cosmic ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...