The X‑arithmetic technique offers a powerful new way to map the physics of other galactic structures across the universe and ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed stunning cosmic structures within galaxy clusters, like bubbles and waves, ...

New NASA-backed research using the Chandra X-ray Observatory suggests many small galaxies may lack supermassive black holes, ...

NASA’s Chandra telescope uses a new X-arithmetic method to compare X-ray energies and show how supermassive black holes shape galaxy clusters and galaxy groups, revealing differences in gas movement a ...

NASA’s new X‑ray images reveal how supermassive black holes sculpt galaxy clusters. Jets, bubbles, and ripples reshape cosmic ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

NASA's Chandra telescope has used a novel "X-arithmetic" technique to analyse X-ray data from galaxy clusters, showing how supermassive black holes influence hot gas structures and offering new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. Down here on Earth, if we’re lucky, we can spot the Milky Way ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble ...