In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

Describing dark matter as "elusive, invisible entities", Professor Natarajan said every galaxy in the universe has some dark ...

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

Scientists have discovered a way to create black holes without the mysterious singularities where physics breaks down. By ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum ...

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

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

Now, though, using an instrument called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument or DESI, scientists have discovered a trove ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy may not be as voracious as the gas-gobbling monsters that ...

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