The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a limit to how big a black hole can grow due to accretion and certainly shouldn’t ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows LEDA 42160, a galaxy about 52 million light-years from Earth. The dwarf galaxy is one ...

Princeton University graduate student Jiaxuan Li (李嘉轩) was part of a team seeking dwarf galaxies orbiting the spiral galaxy ...

"Since about half the stars in our galaxy are in binary systems where life might develop ... A spider pulsar is a pulsar with ...

The FRB itself is offset 130,000 light-years from the center of the galaxy, which is the largest offset of any known FRB.

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

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The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

According to data from the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes, the origins of the free-flying photons in the early cosmic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to start with.

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...