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

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

Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the ...

Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

The black hole sits five billion light-years from Earth. It lies at the centre of a giant galaxy in the Cosmic Horseshoe ...

Theoretically, there's no limit to how massive a black hole could grow. In practical terms, other constraints, such as the ...

Astronomers have identified a 36-billion-solar-mass black hole in the distant Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, using a new technique ...

Scientists have spotted what's thought to be the largest black hole ever recorded - estimated to be the size of 36 billion ...

A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way —has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...

Across the cosmos, heavier galaxies tend to host heavier black holes, a pattern known as the M–σ relation. But the Cosmic ...

In a galaxy far, far, far away, astronomers have found the oldest black hole in the universe, thought to have formed less ...