Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

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 Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

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

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

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

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Like the Disney people, producer Zoe Heron took on the biggest and most complicated subject imaginable - the creation of the universe - and made it simple, thrilling and fun. As two young astronomers ...

"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.