but you need to take a long-exposure image to capture its characteristic spiral shape. Two fainter fuzzy patches between ...

How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.

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The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

IC 2163 is the smaller of the pair, measuring at about 101,000 light-years in diameter, or about the size of our Milky Way.

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...

The first image of our Milky Way's black hole, initially depicted as ... However, the reanalysis by NAOJ scientists has shown a different shape for this black hole. This new interpretation could ...