Black holes often appear in science fiction movies, largely because elements of their existence are still a mystery. They ...

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified two pairs of supermassive black holes on the brink of merging, an event never observed before in the cosmos. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Strange, ultraheavy stars that are rich in barium grow massive by cannibalizing their companions, scientists discover after ...

For astronomers, finding a new black hole orbiting an aged red dwarf star is an exciting find in itself, but when that black hole seems to be a "missing link" stellar-mass black hole, you can crank ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted — about as long as 140 Milky ...

One of the observations is of supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The Milky Way also has a supermassive black hole at its core: Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star"). The Milky Way above the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, above the European Southern ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.