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

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we've lacked a precise picture of what ...

Runaway black holes have moved from theoretical oddity to observed reality, and the picture they paint is as unsettling as it is awe inspiring. Instead of sitting quietly at galactic centers, some of ...

Confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics ...

Somewhere in the universe, enormous black holes are circling each other so slowly that ...

But now a new study published in Nature suggests a solution to the Little Red Dots mystery. Scientists think young ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Researchers have studied an ancient "Jekyll and Hyde" galaxy, nicknamed Virgil, highlighted here ...

At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

Some galaxies eject powerful streams of charged particles—jets—from their centers into space. The prominent jet of Messier 87 ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87* ...

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