A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

If you look up on a clear night from a darksky location, you might see the Milky Way as a faint band of thousands of stars.

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible light (top right) and low-energy X-rays (bottom left) are blocked by the gas ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we ...

A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...

In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not.

"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a ...

The Gaia mission, launched by the European Space Agency, has completed a decade of groundbreaking astronomical observations, collecting over three trillion data points on two billion stars and ...