The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...
Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster that stretches across 30,000 light-years and is located about 80,000 light-years from ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
About 13 billion light-years away there is a supermassive black hole actively sending out a spectacular beam of energy directly towards Earth. Interestingly, this isn't just any black hole; it's a ' ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.
Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...