A team of astronomers at the University of Milano-Bicocca has uncovered a colossal spiral galaxy that existed just 2 billion ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...

The galaxy in question also possesses vastly more dark matter than the Milky Way, hinting at a connection between active black holes and the abundance of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." ...