The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...
In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...
Astronomers have discovered an ultramassive black hole 36 billion times heavier than the Sun in the galaxy LRG 3-757. This ...
Astronomers discovered a colossal 36-billion-solar-mass black hole in the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, reshaping our ...
Astronomers have unveiled one of the largest known black holes, buried within a distant galaxy, five-and-a-half billion light-years away. Nestled at the heart of the "Cosmic Horseshoe" — a ...
Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...
A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...
"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...
When a star ventures too close to a supermassive black hole, the tremendous gravitational influence of that cosmic titan generates tidal forces that squash the star horizontally while stretching ...