A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
It’s explored our own Solar System, studied the atmospheres of distant planets in search of signs of life and probed the ...
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...
Astronomers discover a quasar 12 billion light-years away with a water reservoir 140 trillion times larger than Earth's ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...
Researchers discovered a surprising water-bound black hole with 140 trillion times the water of Earth’s oceans combined.
As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...
Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...
Within nearly every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. The beast at the heart of our galaxy contains the mass of millions of suns, while some of the largest supermassive black holes can be more than ...
Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion ...