VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

Explore how the Webb telescope reveals a massive black hole from the early universe living in a dormant state for most of its ...

A surprising new study suggests the intense radiation from active galactic nuclei from a black hole might support life ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

In the early Universe, galaxies proliferated by absorbing gas and forming stars. Eventually, this growth stops in a process ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...