The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

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

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

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

The astronomers who operate powerful Vera C. Rubin observatory released debut images June 23, 2025, showcasing just exactly ...

A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...

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

The lone black hole is located 5,000 light-years away from Earth, which is much closer than the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, located at the centre of the Milky Way, 27,000 light-years ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European ...