On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...

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

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope ...

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

Researchers discovered a surprising water-bound black hole with 140 trillion times the water of Earth’s oceans combined.

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

Within nearly every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. The beast at the heart of our galaxy contains the mass of millions of suns, while some of the largest supermassive black holes can be more than ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion ...

The team compared two types of galaxies: those harboring X-ray-emitting black holes and those without. Using Webb’s ...

Has the decades-long mystery behind the strange star movements in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s largest star cluster, finally been solved? Omega Centauri has been studied to determine if its high ...

Credit: ESO/F. Peißker et al., S. Guisard. Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery near Sagittarius A*, the ...