A cosmic dance could be the future of the Milky Way as it tracks a course to collide with neighboring galaxies, a University ...

A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...

A University of Queensland study suggests that the Milky Way is on a collision course with neighboring galaxies, predicting a ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold hydrogen, new research reveals. They could help scientists figure out when our ...

Hubble’s latest portrait of the Tarantula Nebula reveals a turbulent star-making region far beyond the Milky Way. Located 160 ...

A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way —has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...

In about 4.5 billion years, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. While it sounds like a cosmic ...

Astronomers have uncovered what may be the most massive black hole ever found, 36 billion times the mass of our Sun, hidden ...

Astronomers have identified a 36-billion-solar-mass black hole in the distant Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy, using a new technique ...

Astronomers have identified an ultramassive black hole that could be the largest ever measured, hidden in a distant galaxy ...