A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...
It’s explored our own Solar System, studied the atmospheres of distant planets in search of signs of life and probed the ...
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...
Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion ...
According to the team's modeling and calculations with the added pulsar data, the motions of the stars in the center of Omega ...
Has the decades-long mystery behind the strange star movements in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s largest star cluster, finally been solved? Omega Centauri has been studied to determine if its high ...
Credit: ESO/F. Peißker et al., S. Guisard. Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery near Sagittarius A*, the ...