With the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have obtained a detailed study of the activity from the Milky Way's central ...

Telescope readings in two near-infrared bands reveal cosmic bursts that vary in brightness and duration. ...

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

A blast of X-rays was seen coming from within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it’s so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful tools is something called 21cm radiation. Hydrogen, the most abundant ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...