The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

There are millions of galaxies in the universe, and while astronomers have cataloged many, some remain relatively unknown to ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

Dark matter density in the Milky Way measured using pulsars Pulsar acceleration data reveals galactic gravitational mapping Study expands dark matter research beyond binary pulsars ...

Scientists may have detected dark matter’s first signal through ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. If true, it could challenge ...

A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

Astrophysicists at UCLA suggest decaying dark matter may drive processes leading to the formation supermassive black holes.

The image shows the galaxy NGC 4438, where a supermassive black hole is releasing huge bubbles of hot gas into space. The image captures an elliptical galaxy surrounded by a dark dust lane, seen ...