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

Buried in a distant galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a black hole so massive it bends light itself. Located some 5 billion ...

The Cosmic Horseshoe is a gravitationally lensed system with the foreground galaxy being one of the heaviest in the known universe, hundreds of times our own galaxy. It is so heavy that it warps space ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an astonishing black hole. It was only just measured by scientists who managed ...

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

Here’s how it works. Simulations suggest cosmic webs, made of filaments of dark matter, stretch throughout the galaxy. (Image credit: F. Vazza, D. Wittor and J. West) ...

July 10 (UPI) -- Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the Big Bang. Research presented at the Royal Astronomical ...