The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...

This illustration shows a binary black hole at the centre of the quasar Markarian 231, outshining billions of stars. This image shows a possible seed for a supermassive black hole. Two seeds were ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...

NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions Sep. 26, 2024 — In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the blowtorch ...

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Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...