An incredibly brief, ultrabright explosion has led astronomers to a newfound magnetic star outside the Milky Way, which could ...

"This work is a unique collaboration between astronomers and computer scientists advancing cutting-edge computational tools ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has gathered unprecedented insights into the history of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the ...

Astronomers identified the largest stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, ...

The biggest hole formed from a collapsed star in the Milky Way Galaxy resides 2,000 light years away from Earth in the Aquila ...

Astronomers have long wondered why spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are so rare in our local galactic neighborhood. New research using supercomputer simulations of the evolution of our neighborhood ...

Gaia mission have discovered the most massive stellar black hole known in the Milky Way Galaxy, weighing in at 33 times the ...

The European Space Agency announced that it has found the most massive stellar-mass black hole yet discovered in the Milky ...

In the career of an astronomer, it’s hard to overstate the scale of a recent find by a team at Chile’s Very Large Telescope ...

Astronomers have detected a black hole positioned roughly 2,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquila. It was ...

“So far, black holes this big have only ever been detected in distant galaxies.” How big is the Milky Way’s newest known black hole? About 33 times the size of the sun — about 50% bigger ...