"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors. It's a small, irregular galaxy that orbits the ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

Learn how ALMA gives astrophysics a front row seat to dynamic forces that shape the galaxy, called space tornadoes.

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

One researcher’s analysis of Webb Space Telescope images could indicate that we’re all stuck in a black hole, according to ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...