An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

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

By Leah CraneA nearby galaxy once thought to be dominated by dark matter seems to have a surprise supermassive black hole at ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years away. Unlike most, it is actively feeding and producing radio jets, making it ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Main) an illustration of a galaxy with a rogue feeding black hole heading to its oukskirts ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a galaxy, but far from it. More amazingly, the event’s radio waves pulsed and ...

A galaxy 2.5 million light-years away can be seen in Massachusetts. The best times to see the Andromeda Galaxy might be in late September and early October. This is when the Andromeda galaxy can be ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

"This is like a cosmic lighthouse lit by a wandering black hole." New research suggests that not all feeding massive black holes sit stably at the heart of their home galaxies. A team of astronomers ...