Cygnus X-1 was the first ever black hole discovered in the year 1960 which had 10 times more mass than the sun. It is galaxy ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

The Chandra X-ray Observatory captured imagery of a galaxy that "appears to have pulled in and assimilated all of its former ...

Red hydrogen gas bubbles, energized by radiation from newly formed stars, add to the galaxy’s visual splendor. Near the ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

"The X-ray data traces a unique picture that you can't ... trend in jet knots blasted by a monster black hole in the center ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Astronomers revisited decades-old data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, discovering bright, clumped “knots” in an ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...