"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

Once the two galaxies are merged, the supermassive hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud – if black hole there is – will make its way to the galactic center, where it will eventually, after many more ...

Hamby stands at 6-foot-3, while Brink is a bit taller at 6-foot-4. In fact, Brink just made actor Jamie Foxx look tiny standing back-to-back with him. The only time we’ve seen Brink look small is when ...

The elliptical galaxy NGC 4660 is one of a hundred galaxies imaged by Hubble that are members of the nearest large galaxy cluster to Earth, the Virgo Cluster. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

The Dwarf 3 is great for astrophotography beginners, but it also has lots of useful tools for more experienced hobbyists.

Astronomers are trying to understand a mysterious cosmic explosion that the Einstein Probe spacecraft spotted in April last year.

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

An LSU-led team would like to use a high-flying Antarctic balloon-borne infrared telescope to detect the chemical makeup of ...