Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

A hidden 600,000-solar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud is on course to collide with the Milky Way in 2 billion ...

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ... for the presence of a supermassive black hole within the nearby galaxy, whose gravity ...

In 2019, they took the first image of a supermassive black hole. Today, these exotic objects are a fundamental part of our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve. But what of smaller ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

More information: Jiwon Jesse Han et al, Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00102 ...