Somewhere in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, about twenty-five thousand light-years away, sits the anchor of ...

Gas swirling around the center of our Galaxy. The animation shows the gas at different infrared wavelengths, demonstrating ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

Astronomers confirm Gaia BH1, a roughly ten-solar-mass black hole just 1,600 light-years away, revealing dormant black holes ...

Scientists searching for alien signals may have stumbled upon a rapidly spinning dead star near the Milky Way’s center, but ...

ALMA has found a huge jet of cool gas near the gamma-ray source LMC P3, adding support to a black hole over a pulsar as the ...

The oldest pair of compact quasars ever observed has been found only 900 million years after the Big Bang. Scientists say ...

A sparkling Hubble image is helping astronomers explore whether an ancient star cluster once belonged to another galaxy.

Pulsar timing array gravitational-wave searches have set the first mass limits on supermassive black hole pairs at cosmic ...

Supernova impostor AT 2016blu erupted 27 times in 14 years without dying. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory now confirms a ...

An exhilarating period for science,’ say UChicago scientists who played key role in telescope design and deployment ...

When astronomers first saw the little red dots, they thought the objects were the glow of very populous mature galaxies. But ...