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

Artificial intelligence helps astronomers observe what may be the first known case of a star exploding while interacting with ...

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 ...

The scenario closest to the observations, the researchers determined, involved a massive dying star and a compact object such ...

Scientists may have figured out what caused one of the strangest explosions ever observed in our universe: A massive star ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...

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

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 ...

A nanoship is on its way to a black hole. An astrophysicist wants to send a nanoship (a tiny spacecraft) directly to a black ...

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

Scientists propose a laser-driven nanocraft to reach a black hole in decades, testing relativity and probing extreme gravity.