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

It sits in the heart of a galaxy so massive it bends light into the shape of a giant horseshoe. And within that galaxy lurks ...

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

Scientists have tapped into gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics to confirm the existence of a black hole with 36 ...

A sleeping ultramassive black hole, 36 billion times the Sun’s mass, is warping light 5 billion light-years from Earth.

In a groundbreaking discovery published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers have identified a ...

Astronomers may have just discovered the biggest black hole ever detected. Hidden five billion light-years away inside a ...

Astronomers have found one of the heaviest black holes ever measured, sitting in the heart of a distant galaxy and coming in well above what scientists would normally expect for a galaxy of its size.

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

A galaxy billions of light years from Earth houses what may be the most massive black hole in the universe, equivalent to ...

A team of scientists have said they think they've discovered 'potentially the most massive black hole ever detected' in the universe. The University of Portsmouth's Institute of Cosmology and ...

The Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens. The newly discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the centre of the orange galaxy.