Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Space The Milky Way's black hole may be spinning at top speed Using machine learning to analyse data from the Event Horizon Telescope, researchers found the black hole at the centre of our galaxy ...

The black hole lies 27,000 light-years away and has a mass about 4 million times the Sun’s mass.

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way on an ever-closing loop ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from experts. The monster black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the ...

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds—or Fermi bubbles—at the Milky ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.