A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
Strange Universe Like a parasite sucking the life force out of its host, an international group of scientists have determined ...
The Milky Way also has a supermassive black hole at its core: Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star"). The Milky Way above the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, above the European Southern ...
XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years ...
The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end ...
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around ...
The discovery of something this immense surprisingly early in the lifetime of the universe overturns what we thought we knew ...
The pair of galaxies may eventually lose their Mona Lisa smile, but NASA says it will eventually transform into something ...
Astronomers on Maunakea on Hawai‘i Island have spotted the biggest pair of black hole jets ever seen, spanning 23 million ...
New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an ...