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

Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every ...

American space agency NASA announced the first major science program for the Nancy Grace Roman telescope, aside from the ...

NGC 6278 and PGC 039620 are two galaxies from a sample of 1,600 that were searched for the presence of supermassive black ...

The two galaxies shown here, NGC 6278 and PGC 039620, are representative of the more than 1,600 galaxies analyzed in a new study. Both galaxies are ...

The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will soon map our Milky Way galaxy in infrared. This mission will reveal billions of stars and hidden galactic structures ...

Astronomers are learning more about the origins of supermassive black holes after new data is revealed from a 20-year-long ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will map the Milky Way using infrared observations, studying star formation, stellar evolution, star clusters, and hidden galactic structures over a two-year survey.