New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this striking image of an unusual galaxy with a bullseye structure, as nine rings ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

Astronomers say they've detected a mysterious type of signal known as a fast radio burst coming from an ancient, dead galaxy.

the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31. The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years ...

M3 was the first globular cluster Charles Messier discovered for his catalog. To see M4’s oldest white dwarfs, Hubble took ...

Apr. 3, 2024 — A team of astronomers has used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82). Located 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa ...

A possible culprit is the compact satellite galaxy Messier 32, which resembles the stripped-down core of a once-spiral galaxy that may have interacted with Andromeda in the past.