A binary system 18,000 light-years away, emits X-rays as a Sun-like star orbits a dense companion, either a neutron star or black hole. Telescopes like Chandra, IXPE, and XMM-Newton capture its ...

This illustration, taken from an animation produced for the European Southern Observatory, shows a binary star system. Credit ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

A stunning new image sent back from the world's most expensive space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, shows the ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 100 examples of massive black holes shredding and devouring stars, almost all of them where you'd expect to find ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

For a supermassive black hole to turn into a quasar, something must bring material for it to feed on near to it. This is ...