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About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...
Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...
Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the ...
At 36 billion solar masses, the newly discovered black hole is so massive that it seems to break some theories of the ...
The massive " Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our ...
Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...
Across the cosmos, heavier galaxies tend to host heavier black holes, a pattern known as the M–σ relation. But the Cosmic ...
The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.
If you point your spaceship toward the constellation Leo, fire your thrusters, and travel about 5 billion light-years, you’ll ...
The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.
New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...
THE LYMAN CONTINUUM ESCAPE FRACTION OF THE COSMIC HORSESHOE: A TEST OF INDIRECT ESTIMATES. The Astrophysical Journal, 2016; 831 (1): 38 DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/38 ...