Two of the universe’s most extreme objects—black holes and neutron stars—can spiral into cosmic collisions that crack crusts, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

A high-speed crash between two dwarf galaxies might explain a unique feature in space – and provide useful information on ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Astronomers have uncovered a colossal, searing-hot filament of gas linking four galaxy clusters in the Shapley Supercluster a discovery that could finally solve the mystery of the Universe s missing ...

Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way.

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...