“Scary Barbie” (also known as AT2021lwx) is the informal name given by scientists to a phenomenon that is referred to as a ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

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NASA has released new cosmic images captured by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. The images feature stellar phenomena ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of black holes, revealing their energy and interactions with ...

Discovery triples known active black holes in dwarf galaxies, doubles intermediate black hole candidates, and challenges ...

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

Learn how different types of stars form, live, explode, and then form again.

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory released 25 new images. Since Chandra’s launch on July 23, 1999 it discovers exotic new phenomena and examines old mysteries of our universe.

Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking ultra-massive black hole, weighing 36 billion solar masses, at the heart of the ...