"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very unlikely." ...

In the vast expanse of the universe, there are cosmic giants so enormous that they stretch our understanding of scale and distance. While our own Milky Way galaxy is already home to billions of stars, ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an ...

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

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

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

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

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

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...