A nearby active galaxy called VV 340a offers a dramatic look at how a supermassive black hole can reshape its entire host.

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Astronomers tallying up all the normal matter—stars, galaxies and gas—in the universe today have come up embarrassingly short of the total matter produced in the Big Bang 13.6 billion years ago. In ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, glows brightly in a new Hubble Space Telescope image with swathes of ionized gas that fuel star formation. When you purchase through ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the local bubble, which surrounds our solar system. An interstellar cloud of ...

The strong gravity of the black hole (shown as a small black dot at the center of the disk on the right) pulls gas from the companion star (left). As the gas spirals inward, it forms a ...

For decades, scientists have been puzzled by the missing mass in the universe. While we know that about 85% of the universe is made up of dark matter, the remaining 15% is made up of normal (baryonic) ...