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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

This ultramassive black hole, weighing in at an astonishing 36 billion times the mass of our Sun, dwarfs the black hole at ...