Astronomers Stunned to Stumble on 'Cosmic Horseshoe' With a Black Hole the Size of 36 Billion Suns Experts have detected a humongous extraterrestrial object in space. This phenomenon was located in an ...

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational lensing, according to Durham University. Credit: Durham University Watch ...

The strange sight is actually two galaxies, with the light of the second warped around the one at the front as a result of ...

The NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of an Einstein ring, an optical phenomenon created by ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Astronomers have detected an erupting supermassive black hole producing some of the largest jets ever seen bursting from a galaxy with the same shape as our own. The galaxy in question also ...

Five decades ago, famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking theorized that the Big Bang may have flooded the universe with tiny black holes. Now, researchers believe they may have seen one explode.

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

Astronomers have discovered a black hole so mind-bogglingly large ... physicist Albert Einstein predicted in 1915, gravitational lensing causes the light from the system's more distant galaxy ...