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Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing ...

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

Using deep imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed a galaxy bearing a striking resemblance to our 13.6-billion-year-old Milky Way, but one that formed only 1.5 billion years after ...

NASA’s Hubble telescope has captured rare images of newborn stars hidden inside dusty cosmic clouds, revealing how massive ...

NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...

A new low-frequency radio image offers the most comprehensive view yet of the Milky Way’s southern sky. Astronomers at the International Center of (ICRAR) have produced the most detailed low-frequency ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space telescope shows that might not always have been the case.

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.

Astronomers at W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea discovered “the clearest evidence yet that a supermassive black hole can ...