Black holes are big, in fact the smallest of them are around 100,000 times the mass of our solar system’s central star. But ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

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

Astronomers have identified 300 ultra-rare black holes, potentially solving one of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics—how ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Black holes may leak more energy to their surroundings than previously suspected — and the faster these voids spin, the more ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...

Flaring hot spots that resemble solar flares are seen in the disk. A supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way ...

Between spotting galaxies that shouldn't exist, capturing the interstellar medium with unprecedented clarity, and identifying ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...