"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson came face to face at the 2025 Golden Globes when Diesel took the stage to present the prize for ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Astronomers have watched as a supermassive black hole enjoying a stellar meal flashed twice in a ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...

This marks the first-ever detection of X-ray spectral lines in a binary black hole system, offering a novel window into the ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

In the last couple of decades, it’s become increasingly clear that massive galaxies like our own Milky Way host supermassive ...

Recent discoveries about black holes, including intermediate types and plasma jets, transform our cosmic understanding.