The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

Located only 56 million light-years away in Ursa Major, NGC 4102 gives astronomers a nearby target to study how these active cores impact their host galaxies.

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

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

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

The McDonald Observatory director Taft Armandroff of The University of Texas at Austin will lead the next phase of ...

The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

A black hole ate its way into the record books after devouring a star and creating a celestial outburst that burned with the ...

In the latest autumn edition of the Galaxies Showcase, a plethora of exciting announcements were made, capturing the attention of tech enthusiasts and industry watchers ...