Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...

Do all stars exist in galaxies, or do some exist in intergalactic space?Thomas GriffilthAtlantic City, New Jersey Nearly all ...

Scientists are developing new methods to turn black hole images into time-resolved 3D movies, revealing how plasma, jets, and gravity behave near event horizons ...

In a groundbreaking astronomical discovery, researchers have unveiled a cosmic event of immense scale: a trio of galaxies, each hosting a supermassive black hole, is on a collision course. Located ...

On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...

More than a billion years ago, a galaxy cluster burned with an intensity that far exceeds the predictions of current models, ...

From signs of life on Mars to an interstellar visitor and weakening dark energy, 2025 reshaped space science, raising the ...

A newly-discovered galaxy cluster could rewrite our understanding of the cosmos, as scientists spot 'something the universe ...