Astronomers have discovered what they say is among the most massive black holes ever detected.The cosmic behemoth is close to ...

The black hole is located in one of the two galaxies that make up the Cosmic Horseshoe system, about 5 billion light years ...

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 ...

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

Even with the Hubble Space Telescope ’s groundbreaking abilities, the “Cosmic Grapes” galaxy only appeared as a smooth, ...

This telescope has revealed the whipped-up dust from the birth of a star—and a shining background galaxy—more clearly than ...

"At the moment, Punctum truly stands apart — it doesn't fit comfortably into any known category," said Shablovinskaia. "And ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have proposed a new explanation for some of the universe's ...