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

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 ...

The Cosmic Horseshoe is a gravitationally lensed system with the foreground galaxy being one of the heaviest in the known universe, hundreds of times our own galaxy. It is so heavy that it warps space ...

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

Cosmic horseshoe is not the lucky beacon Astronomers use observations of gravitationally lensed galaxy to measure properties of early universe Date: October 26, 2016 Source: University of ...

In this new UC Riverside-led study, astronomers directly measured the fraction of ionizing photons escaping from the Cosmic Horseshoe, a distant galaxy that is gravitationally lensed.

In this new UC Riverside-led study, astronomers directly measured the fraction of ionizing photons escaping from the Cosmic Horseshoe, a distant galaxy that is gravitationally lensed.