The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

U.K. science minister Lord Patrick Vallance told the BBC that they've developed a plan to phase out animal testing for ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

An international team, spearheaded by Prof. Luciano Rezzolla at the Goethe-Universität, has invented a novel approach to ...

Last week, four lasers were projected into the sky above the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Paranal site in Chile. The ...

Created using data from two extensive surveys, this spectacular radio image of the galactic plane of the Milky Way provides valuable insights into the birth and death of stars.

In the heart of the Milky Way is a black hole millions of times more massive than our sun, but does that mean we're destined ...

During the 1950s, the study of the cosmos was revolutionized with the introduction of radio astronomy. In the ensuing decades, astronomers detected numerous bright radio sources that they designated ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters and galaxies. These short-lived giants not only forged the ...

Astronomers have long puzzled over how the oldest and most mysterious star clusters in the universe—known as globular ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.