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The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme objects could be invisible unless observed in infrared wavelengths, James ...

“Observing the Galaxy is like standing in the middle of a brightly lit city at night. If you look toward the outskirts, the view is clearer – you can make out individual streets, scattered houses, and ...

Astronomers released new images this week of the Milky Way that offer an unprecedented look at an enormous slice of the galaxy, complete with star clusters, clouds of cosmic dust and the supermassive ...

Indian scientists have discovered a 13.8-billion-year-old galaxy that resembles the Milky Way. The galaxy has been named Alaknanda, after one of the headstreams of Ganga River.

Sci-fi tends to paint the edge of our galaxy as a desolate backwater, but in one early galaxy, the galactic rim is the bright, bustling center of activity, and the core is the aging backwater. The ...

Hubble has captured yet another mesmerizing image of a spiral galaxy. This time, though, the space telescope also captured a shot of a nearby star that shines just as brightly as its galactic ...

Far beyond the edge of what the naked eye can see, a giant spiral galaxy has offered scientists a glimpse into a possible future for our own. The galaxy, known only by a string of numbers and ...

A "dead" galaxy believed to have existed 700 million years after the Big Bang is stirring up a lot of concerns in the astronomy community right now. According to observations made with the James Webb ...

Artist'ss impression of a black hole surrounded by matter waiting to fall in — Credit: © NASA, and M. Weiss (Chandra X -ray Center) Artist'ss impression of a black ...