“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...

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

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by ...

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

The distance to one of the Milky Way's next-door neighbors, a satellite galaxy that orbits its outskirts, has been determined more accurately than ever before, astronomers announced today (March 6).