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One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

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New research suggests a massive black hole is the primary force preventing Segue 1's small complement of stars from drifting ...

On October 18, 2025, the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) 4MOST (4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope) ...

Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...

Both galaxies can be spotted as small ... The gas clouds contain cavities and ridges — details that are only possible to spot ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered five complex organic molecules trapped in the ice around ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is slated to be the next Great Observatory for the world. Its main focus has been ...

The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...