"At the moment, Punctum truly stands apart — it doesn't fit comfortably into any known category," said Shablovinskaia. "And ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...

Astronomers have discovered what they say is among the most massive black holes ever detected.The cosmic behemoth is close to ...

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 ...

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

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

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have proposed a new explanation for some of the universe's ...

Even with the Hubble Space Telescope ’s groundbreaking abilities, the “Cosmic Grapes” galaxy only appeared as a smooth, ...

Astronomers have discovered a dormant black hole 36 billion times the size of the Sun in the distant Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, ...

Black hole 36 billion times heavier than our Sun discovered using revolutionary gravitational lensing technique, revealing ...