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

This tiny galaxy lies at a distance of 170 million light years from Earth and is forming new stars at a very fast rate ...

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

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

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

Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi has proposed a century-long mission to send a “paperclip-sized nanocraft” to a black hole using a ...

An ambitious plan to test extreme physics close to a black hole would involve a space probe weighing only a few grams, ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...

There have been several claims in the last decade about the most massive black holes. They are all in the several tens of ...

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