"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

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

Arizona's dark skies are a haven for astronomers and photographers. Some communities are fighting to keep them that way.

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

Astronomer Yusef-Zadeh explained that flares are expected in all supermassive black holes, but Sagittarius A is unique.

The unseen gravitational attraction of the Great Attractor is dragging galaxies, including the Milky Way, at rapid speeds ...

From star births to deaths and a party in a black hole, here are some of the reports we’ve been getting back from the ...

Astrophysicists used the JWST to observe central supermassive black hole for 48 hours total across one year. They found the ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.