"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...