The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...

Scientists are working to identify an oddly pulsating, supermassive black hole ( SMBH) that pulled a really weird stunt. More ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

Officials in Costa Rica and Panama are confiscating migrants’ passports and cellphones, denying them access to legal services ...

Black holes may leak more energy to their surroundings than previously suspected — and the faster these voids spin, the more ...

"Dramatic activity serves as a beacon, allowing us to identify hidden black holes in these small galaxies." ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

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A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf ...

The supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy is in continuous turmoil, observations made using the James Webb ...

Describing dark matter as "elusive, invisible entities", Professor Natarajan said every galaxy in the universe has some dark ...