ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

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 ...

Galactic gravity can dramatically impact wide binary stars, pushing them towards unexpected mergers or collisions. The ...

Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster Dec. 9, 2024 — Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars ...

In the last couple of decades, it’s become increasingly clear that massive galaxies like our own Milky Way host supermassive ...

Scientists want to know if a tidal disruption event that exploded twice is the result of a star abandoning its binary partner ...

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be ...

Uncover the mystery of Omega Centauri: a stellar-mass black hole is responsible for the fast movement of nearly ten million ...

Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster Dec. 9, 2024 — Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars ...

Most large galaxies are comprised of a central supermassive black hole and hundreds of billions of stars slowly in orbit around that massive gravity well. In the case of the Milky Way, our Sun ...