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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Black hole activities suppress the birth of new stars around it, shows a new study that can help in a deeper understanding of how galaxies evolve and may provide answers to why some have very low ...

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

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

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