Somebody must have forgotten to tell the white dwarf, because in March 2024, it was still orbiting the black hole – now even faster, doing one orbit in just 7 minutes.

Engaging articles, breathtaking images and expert knowledge "Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." The galaxy next door to the Milky Way, ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 billion years ago.

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Now, astronomers led by researchers from the University of Innsbruck have peered between the billions of stars, galaxies and ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Feb. 19, 2025 — Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an ...