Astronomers have measured the weight of a huge black hole — 36 billion times the mass of our sun, or six times the size of our entire solar system — in an old and dead galaxy near Earth. This cosmic ...

At 36 billion solar masses, the newly discovered black hole is so massive that it seems to break some theories of the ...

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

If you point your spaceship toward the constellation Leo, fire your thrusters, and travel about 5 billion light-years, you’ll ...

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

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 ...

The newly discovered black hole lies in one of the largest galaxies ever observed, known as the Cosmic Horseshoe. This galaxy ...

Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...

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