In the vastness of the Universe, some discoveries remind us how much we still have to learn. A recent study on Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitational lensing phenomenon, is a striking example.

Cosmic Horseshoe, showing the Einstein ring formed by gravitational lensing. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble A team of researchers, led by Carlos Melo-Carneiro, has revealed the presence of an ultra-massive ...

Explore how the Webb telescope reveals a massive black hole from the early universe living in a dormant state for most of its ...

It is thought this process could create massive "seed" black hole around 100,000 solar masses with "heavy" seeds that can grow to a billion solar masses. In a paper posted to the arXiv preprint ...

Galaxy NGC 4945 in the constellation of Centaurus (main) and galactic winds flowing out from its supermassive black hole (inset). | Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ...

The black hole examined by the team is no small cosmic object. It is more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Despite ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be ...

The thought behind that is that to power these really big jets requires a very massive black hole, and one that's probably also spinning. So most spiral galaxies don't have massive enough black ...

But might another, stoked by our massive black hole, be in the cards? Grasping how such active black holes behave in spiral galaxies can help us not just grasp the fate of our galaxy, but others.