At just 7.8 million light-years away, the newly discovered dwarf galaxy dw1322m2053 is remarkable for its isolation and lack ...

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly feeding black hole in a dwarf galaxy from the early universe, shedding light on how ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

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 ...

The existence and origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been a hot topic in astronomy research in recent years. Now that we ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

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

Caption A unique ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered in the outer fringes of the Andromeda Galaxy thanks to the sharp eyes of an amateur astronomer examining archival data from the US ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

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

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...