Scientists know stars can form near and even orbit these black hole behemoths, but they’ve never seen a pair of stars survive ...

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in Nature ...

NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be "tipped over," rotating in an ...

An international research team has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe massive galaxies discovered by the ...

International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to Sagittarius A*.

Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has shut ...

It was previously thought that the gravitational forces around a black hole were too extreme for such a star system to ...

China says two of its astronauts completed a nine-hour spacewalk Tuesday, a figure that beats the US-held record for the ...

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