A large spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away harbors a supermassive black hole at its center, just like our […] ...

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Explore how the Webb telescope reveals a massive black hole from the early universe living in a dormant state for most of its ...

Research based on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery, taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has ...

A surprising new study suggests the intense radiation from active galactic nuclei from a black hole might support life ...

In the center of the Milky Way, the conditions are actually ideal for the formation of stars. Now there is a clue as to why ...

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Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...