NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

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

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Dec. 17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive ...

The galaxy harbors a central black hole weighing about 1.4 million solar masses and is located 270 million light-years from Earth. Observations of this galaxy from 2018 -- 2024 revealed phenomena ...

One possible answer is inside-out growth: As star formation within a galaxy expands outward from the nucleus, less gas is being deposited by supernovas near the accreting black hole, and it ...

"For such a faint and unknown target, we were not sure if we would get any data at all — but the strategy worked." ...