An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...

This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years ...

New maps reveal a vast store of hidden star-making material called "CO-dark molecular gas," found in the Cygnus X region.