"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

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

This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This giant black hole that weighs around 600,000 times the Sun was revealed by researchers under the leadership of astrophysicist Jiwon Jesse Han from Harvard ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...