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

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

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 ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

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 ...

James Webb notices three tiny dots, but NASA cannot explain them. These dots are red and scientists have discovered more ...

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 ...