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

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

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 ...

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 ...

It may be the most massive black hole ever found. 36 billion times larger than the mass of our Sun, it was previously hidden ...

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

The black hole sits five billion light-years from Earth. It lies at the centre of a giant galaxy in the Cosmic Horseshoe ...

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

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

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

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