At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

The researchers propose that this ejection resulted from the collision of two galaxies, causing their central black holes to ...

The recent discovery of a stupendously powerful neutrino has left scientists scratching their heads. New research suggests it ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprising galaxy rotation pattern, where two-thirds rotate clockwise and ...

In a separate search through the DESI data, the team identified 300 intermediate-mass black hole candidates -- the most extensive collection to date. Most black holes are either lightweight (less ...