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 ...

Astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) have caught a supermassive black hole in ...

Sheffield Council is to freeze recruitment for six months as it grapples with a budget gap of more than £28m. The authority ...

If we do find a black hole that's close enough, the next challenge is getting there. For that, Bambi proposes the development ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...