A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Do all stars exist in galaxies, or do some exist in intergalactic space?Thomas GriffilthAtlantic City, New Jersey Nearly all ...

The system is known as J1218/1219+1035, and is located 1.2 billion light-years from us. The three nuclei of the three ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

Scientists are developing new methods to turn black hole images into time-resolved 3D movies, revealing how plasma, jets, and gravity behave near event horizons ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

Black holes are significant within the scientific exploration of space. They are places in space where gravity is incredibly strong, so much so that not even light can evade it.  The center of a black ...

Black holes are among the most extreme objects in the universe, and now scientists can model them more accurately than ever before. By combining Einstein’s gravity with realistic behavior of light and ...