When you wish upon a star, Jiminy Cricket told us, your dreams come true. But according to an idea doing the rounds on social ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

Galaxy clusters—the big cities of the universe—are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth ...

They are also much smaller than their host galaxies, by a factor of about a million in radius. In new results we are ...

Was planetary formation different during the early universe than today? This is what a recent study published in The ...

A gamma-ray flare from a black hole 6.5 billion times the Sun’s mass leaves scientists stunned.

Binary stars can’t survive long near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole — but for the first time, astronomers have ...

A group of international researchers discover a binary star orbiting near a supermassive black hole at the centre of our ...

While investigating a mysterious radiation signal unlike any seen before, astronomers may have uncovered a rare pair of ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

X-rays are radiated by matter hotter than one million Kelvin, and high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy can tell us about the ...