If you point your spaceship toward the constellation Leo, fire your thrusters, and travel about 5 billion light-years, you’ll ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...

At 36 billion solar masses, the newly discovered black hole is so massive that it seems to break some theories of the ...

Astronomers have used a new method to weigh the ultramassive black hole. They hope this will help them better understand how ...

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

Astronomers have measured the weight of a huge black hole — 36 billion times the mass of our sun, or six times the size of our entire solar system — in an old and dead galaxy near Earth. This cosmic ...

Are quiescent disks in early-universe galaxies hiding a much more violent reality? Recent research suggests that they might ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could pave the way to unlocking new physics, a study claims.