The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...
The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...
This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.
The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...
Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...
ESA shuts down Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade, leaving behind the most detailed legacy that will guide future ...
Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...
The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...