The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant has been studied for over 2 million seconds since the Chandra mission began in 1999, with X-rays captured by Chandra (blue) and infrared data from Webb (orange, ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

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The results of our study provide the first solid evidence that globular clusters formed through multiple star-formation ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Do you remember the famous images of the supermassive black holes in the centre of the galaxy M87 and our own galaxy the ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...