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

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

A survey to reveal the unseen majority of the Universe has just turned up a treasure trove of black holes that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos.

In about 5.4 billion years, the two galaxies will finally merge into a galaxy of more than 1 trillion stars. So what will all this galactic motion do to the solar system? Honestly, we can’t ...

This energy release is thought to have a major impact on galaxy evolution, clearing away or superheating gas that would otherwise form stars. The most luminous AGN (known as quasars) are thought to be ...

to identify those belonging to the tidal stream of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr dSph), a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way, deepening understanding of how galaxies form.

The small galaxies might have a big role to ... However, when they included the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a dwarf galaxy, ...

The other large galaxies are the Andromeda Galaxy, and Messier 33 (the 33rd entry in Charles Messier's catalog of fuzzy things in the sky). Also in the Local Group are a couple dozen dwarf galaxies.

A small blue dwarf galaxy passed through the massive Bullseye galaxy. This impact created nine rings of new stars.

A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be the source of nine stars zooming through our galaxy – a surprising hint that dwarf galaxies can host large black holes.

have shared an image of two galaxies, MCG+05-31-045, interacting within the Coma Cluster. Located 390 million light-years away, the pair is in the midst of a cosmic merger. As the smaller galaxy ...