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 ...

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

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

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

An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

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.

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

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 ...

The black hole is located in one of the two galaxies that make up the Cosmic Horseshoe system, about 5 billion light years ...

Biggest black hole ever? Astronomers may have just found it. A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns-10,000 ...