Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

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

For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...

Supermassive black holes, 1,000 times larger than previously thought, have been discovered in LRD-type galaxies. This discovery could change our understanding of the early universe. Researchers using ...

It is 67 million light-years away from the Milky Way ... The stunning image was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Messier 96 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 31 million light-years away ...

Black holes are one of the most fascinating and mysterious objects in the universe, predicted by the theory of general relativity formulated by Albert Einstein. They are regions in space where the ...

Professor James Binney, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, has been awarded the Royal ...

The Pinwheel Galaxy lies 21 million light-years away in the Ursa Major constellation. The Antennae Galaxies are rich in black holes and neutron stars, driving rapid star formation and evolution.

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

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

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