Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of a massive black hole lurking inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. By tracing hypervelocity stars flung across ...

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

In 2017, astronomers found hypervelocity stars believed to have come from the Large Magellanic Cloud, supposedly kicked out ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Astronomers usually detect black holes by looking for X-rays. When gas and dust fall toward a black hole, they heat up and ...

Here are the seven most beautiful Stars pictures, revealing the universe's beauty through Hubble's lens., Technology & ...

A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

"The sizes of these radio jets are not comparable to our solar system or even our galaxy." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

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Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...