A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

As a result, gas from M81 has found its way into M82's center, spurring an uptick in star formation despite the galaxy's ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind ...

Astronomers from The Australian National University (ANU) have revealed how the Milky Way's hidden gas moves through space, by using the joint power ...

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

JWST observations show that early galaxies were chaotic, gas-filled systems rather than stable disks. Researchers from ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.