NGC 7496, a dusty barred spiral galaxy located 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus, harbors a ravenous supermassive black hole at its core.

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

The galaxy’s vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive black hole at its centre.

Elliptical galaxies instead tend to be older, more massive, and with stars distributed not in a nice little disk, but in a ...

Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the ...

Astronomers have shed light on a decades-long debate about why galaxies rotate faster than expected, and whether this ...

The night sky may look calm, but behind the glowing points of light lies a violent and complex process of creation. Stars, ...

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the ...

For the first time, astronomers have gotten a detailed look at how a supermassive black hole (SMBH) eats, discovering two ...