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

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

Possibly one of the best-known constellations in the northern sky, Ursa Major—or the Great Bear—contains an asterism of seven ...

Predictions are uncertain, but the solar system may be pushed farther from the galactic core or even ejected entirely from ...

Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...

a galaxy nearly twice the size of the Milky Way. Galactic collisions occur frequently in the universe, but the researchers highlight how rare it is for one galaxy to pass directly through the ...

For one night only, all seven other planets in the Solar System will align ... conditions for capturing Andromeda, which is about twice the size of the Milky Way. Dr Dan Brown, an astronomy ...

This runaway growth led to the formation of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar nebula is mainly driven by temperature and ...