In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic center.

CAPE TOWN, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- South Africa's MeerKAT telescope has discovered a massive new radio galaxy spanning more than 32 times the size of the Milky Way, a researcher revealed Saturday.

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...

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 ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

Collaboration has achieved the highest-resolution Earth-based observations to date, detecting light at 345 GHz from the centers of distant galaxies. This breakthrough marks the first time the EHT has ...

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

James Webb recently peered at an alien world that could harbor alien life. What impact would such a seismic discovery have on ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

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