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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a ...

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 ...

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

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

Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...