A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

Astronomers have discovered an enormous black hole the size of 36 billion suns lurking within the "Cosmic Horseshoe." The behemoth object is one of the largest black holes ever detected. First ...

More information: Carlos R. Melo-Carneiro et al, Unveiling a 36 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole at the Centre of the Cosmic ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

A current contender for the largest black hole to have been discovered is TON 618*, which scientists believe is between 40 and 60 billion times the Sun's mass, located some 18.2 billion light ...

Science News: Astronomers have discovered an ultramassive black hole 36 billion times heavier than the Sun in the galaxy LRG 3-757. This discovery challenges curren ...

Study reveals that high-energy cosmic rays are born in magnetic fields during neutron star mergers, a prelude to black holes.

[3] Weak cosmic censorship conjecture for the novel 4D charged Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet black hole with test scalar field and particle. European Physical Journal C (2020).

Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking ultra-massive black hole, weighing 36 billion solar masses, at the heart of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lensing system, challenging our ...

Humans are quite rightly fascinated by black holes, but could we ever harness them as an energy source? New research poses this question in order to explore some of the most wonderous cosmic events.

Black Holes 'Cosmic Horseshoe' may contain black hole the size of 36 billion suns — one of the largest ever detected. News. By Ben Turner published 1 March 2025 ...

The Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system, hosts an ultra-massive black hole (UMBH) with 36 billion solar masses in its foreground galaxy, LRG 3-757.