Supermassive black hole located 6 bn light years away found

Astronomers have used NASA`s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ESA`s XMM-Newton to show a supermassive black hole six billion light-years from Earth is spinning extremely rapidly.

Rare `young-looking` supernova found in old galaxy


Astronomers find elliptical galaxy with split-personality

Astronomers have discovered that a well-known elliptical galaxy has a split personality.

Scientists find monster black holes, biggest yet

Scientists have found the biggest black holes known to exist each one 10 billion times the size of our sun.