Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...

"It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy ... In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, and ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Hubble Rings In the New Year ...

The sharpest images yet of a supermassive black ... Most galaxies have supermassive black holes, but the one in the Milky Way is inactive, meaning the galaxy is as well. The extragalactic AGN ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun. The second-most important star is nestled inside the Andromeda galaxy. Don't go looking for it -- the flickering star is 2.2 million ...

Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral ... something very ...

Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed ... it appears. Hubble worked hard, taking images of spiral ...

That's certainly partly the truth, but he couldn't have done it without the genius of others around him who paved the way for his discovery. "It's easy to romanticize Hubble and his discovery of the ...