Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist ...

A major discovery on the outskirts of Andromeda is shaking up our understanding of galactic evolution. Astronomers have found the dimmest and smallest satellite galaxy yet—Andromeda XXXV—forcing them ...

A new study looking at observations by the JWST of the early universe has thrown up a new and intriguing mystery; the majority of galaxies appear to be rotating in the same direction. This finding, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

Lior Shamir, a computer scientist in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, published a study of ...

Researchers from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian have found compelling evidence of the nearest ...

Flickers and Flares: Milky Way's Central Black Hole Constantly Bubbles With Light Feb. 18, 2025 — Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk ...

Is it possible that dark matter, which makes up 85% of the cosmic matter budget, is simply a collection of primordial black ...