Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

And Scientists Have No Explanation For It The vast space beyond our planet’s wall was rightly known as the final frontier, ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

The LMC is on a trajectory that will lead to its merger with the Milky Way in about 2.4 billion years. As the two galaxies ...

Between spotting galaxies that shouldn't exist, capturing the interstellar medium with unprecedented clarity, and identifying ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the ...