ANSWER: Very big!! The Milky Way Galaxy is one of billions of galaxies in the known universe. The Milky Way is a spiral ...

In March 2021, astronomers observed a high-energy burst of light from a distant galaxy. Assigned the name AT 2021hdr, it was thought to be a supernova. However, there were enough interesting features ...

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

NASA’s Swift Observatory has detected a rare signal from dual black holes impacting gas clouds in a distant galaxy.

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound ...

Scientists have detected the signal from two giant black holes interacting with a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy for ...

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 ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

A team of astronomers has discovered a link between black holes and stellar eruptions, suggesting the potential existence of ...