Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have discovered an enormous black hole at the center of Holmberg 15A, a supergiant elliptical galaxy...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking view of UGC 2369, a pair of interacting galaxies.
Two interacting galaxies UGC 2369N and UGC...
By measuring the distance from the Sun to thousands of classical Cepheid stars and the associated young stellar populations scattered across the Milky...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3432.
This Hubble image shows the edge-on distorted...
An international team of astronomers has mapped the size and shape of the Local Void, a large underdense region of the Universe, on the outskirts of which...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 3169.
This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3169....
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 2985.
This Hubble image shows the multi-armed spiral galaxy...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced a beautiful image of the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1156, one of the best targets to study the isolated...
By combining the capability of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with the power of a natural phenomenon called gravitational lensing, a team of astronomers...
Astronomers using the Deep Synoptic Array-10 at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory have discovered a new non-repeating fast radio burst (FRB), called FRB...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 972.
This Hubble image shows a spiral galaxy called NGC...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief radio emissions from distant astronomical sources. Some are known to repeat, but most are single bursts, occurring only...
NASA has released a spectacularly detailed image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope that shows a spiral galaxy called Messier 98.
This Hubble...
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic explosions in the Universe, beaming out mighty jets which travel through space at 0.99 times the speed of...
According to new research led by Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the collision of the recently-discovered dwarf galaxy Antlia 2 with our Milky...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the irregular galaxy IC 10.
This Hubble image shows the irregular galaxy IC 10....
A starburst galaxy called ESO 495-21 is just 3,000 light-years across, but it harbors a black hole of about one million solar masses at its core. This...
Galaxies are important building blocks of the Universe. Some are simple, while others are very complex in structure. In 1927, as one of the first steps...
An international team of astronomers has found that the central black hole of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4395 has a mass of about 10,000 solar masses...
