The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...
Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.
Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...
New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.
Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.
Astronomers have discovered that a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Circinus galaxy is feeding through two ...
Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...
Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the MBH ...
The galaxy’s vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive black hole at its centre.
The largest of three newly found ring shaped structures in the cosmos are almost a million light-years across.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured asteroid 10199 Chariklo occult the star Gaia DR3 6873519665992128512. It was the ...
Late October presents a perfect opportunity to spot the ancient light of the Andromeda galaxy as it climbs high overhead to ...