Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

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 ...

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 the Milky Way, a ...

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 ...

Black hole debate settled? Stellar-mass black holes found at the heart of the Milky Way's largest star cluster Date: December 9, 2024 Source: University of Surrey Summary: ...