A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way on an ever-closing loop ...

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors. This groundbreaking discovery ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered new structural and spectral details of SNR J0450.4−7050, a supernova ...

A team of scientists has developed a new model to study ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes ...

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars.

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

This stunning 527-megapixel composite reveals both visible and infrared views of young stars, ionized gas, and dust filaments ...

Here are 8 incredibly beautiful and mesmerizing deep space images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing the ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...