An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

New research suggests a massive black hole is the primary force preventing Segue 1's small complement of stars from drifting ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

Researchers have believed that Segue 1, a puny galaxy orbiting the Milky Way just 75,000 light-years away, was packed with dark matter, a substance in space that doesn't shine or interact with light.

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years away. Unlike most, it is actively feeding and producing radio jets, making it ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...

On October 18, 2025, the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) facility, installed on the VISTA telescope at ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of the early ...

On October 18, 2025, the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) 4MOST (4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) has revealed that most massive stars in the early universe were likely born in ...

The discovery is only one of a handful of enigmatic objects called ORCs that have ever been found. And their origins are ...