Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

The study focused on two black holes — our galaxy's Sgr A* and M87*, located 55 million light-years away. Both were previously imaged by the global EHT project.

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a ...

A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...