Supermassive black holes rarely travel alone. Most large galaxies hide one at the center, and when galaxies collide, the two ...

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

The incredible new find was only possible thanks to the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Horseshoe. Credit: ESA/Hubble Last week, astronomers announced the discovery of an unimaginably large black ...

Researchers propose a new technique to identify supermassive black hole binaries through gravitational lensing causing ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A view of The Cosmic Horseshoe and its gravitational lens, in which an ultramassive black hole ...

Scientists believe that when galaxies collide and merge, the supermassive black holes at their centers should eventually pair ...

The Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens. The newly discovered ultramassive blackhole lies at the centre of the orange galaxy. Far behind it is a blue galaxy that is being warped into the horseshoe ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the theoretical upper limit of what is possible in the universe and is 10,000 times ...

Astronomers examining data from the James Webb Space Telescope say they’ve spotted what might be the oldest black hole in the universe, born less than a second after the Big Bang. Their findings, ...