In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

which helped them pinpoint the edge of our galaxy, at about 950,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. “In many analyses of the Milky Way halo, its outer boundary is a fundamental ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Long after the black hole in the center of a galaxy sputters out ... to 250,000 light-years in diameter — about 1.5 to two ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the ...

Aterrifying glimpse of a possible fate for our galaxy, the Milky Way, has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...