Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

Astronomers may have uncovered the origins of the mysterious “little red dots,” some of the strangest galaxies seen in the ...

A sleeping ultramassive black hole, 36 billion times the Sun’s mass, is warping light 5 billion light-years from Earth.

Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi has proposed a century-long mission to send a “paperclip-sized nanocraft” to a black hole using a powerful laser beam. The purpose of this bold mission would be to ...

'Ultramassive' black hole the size of 36 billion suns found in distant galaxy The black hole spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe is also a whopping 10,000 times heavier than ...