A newly discovered ultra-massive black hole (UMBH), weighing an astonishing 36 billion times the mass of the Sun, is rewriting the rules of galaxy formation. Nestled within the Cosmic Horseshoe, a ...

Astronomers Stunned to Stumble on 'Cosmic Horseshoe' With a Black Hole the Size of 36 Billion Suns Experts have detected a ...

ESA's Euclid mission is exploring the "dark universe." The space telescope's latest images offer fascinating new insights.

Black holes have such strong gravity that they warp the paths of everything passing near them, including light. This produces a characteristic lensing effect that distorts and magnifies things ...

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the light from a galaxy behind it. Now, astronomers know where it gets this mass ...

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 ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

Quantum mechanics is used to propose that black hole singularities could be the start of a new phase, rather than a point of destruction.

It's titled "Unveiling a 36 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole at the Centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe Gravitational Lens," and the lead author is Carlos Melo-Carneiro from the Instituto de Física ...

Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking ultra-massive black hole, weighing 36 billion solar masses, at the heart of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lensing system, challenging our ...

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