Recent discoveries by astronomers have revealed the presence of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) emanating from a region ...

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory is the agency's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy. On Sept. 5, 2001, NASA announced that ...

Recently, the astronomical community celebrated a groundbreaking discovery—scientists have observed a supermassive black hole ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided ...

Discover 9 breathtaking Milky Way images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the galaxy’s stunning structure ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged ...

Where did these energy pulses come from? Why had they gone unnoticed before, only to suddenly appear now? I started ...

The center of the Milky Way twinkles in microwave radiation, seen in new data obtained by astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This study could help ...

The new black hole is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at centre of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...