Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of M83, also known as NGC 5236, a ...

Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...

Astronomers have observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral galaxy in the early Universe and found that it has important similarities and differences with modern galaxies. This improves our ...

James Webb telescope reveals mysterious 'light echo' in the broken heart of Cassiopeia Astronomy Space photo of the week: Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next door Astronomy Space photo ...

Astronomers are using Hubble to study vivid gas clouds and newborn stars in the tilted spiral galaxy NGC 3511.

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a striking cosmic vista featuring the grand design spiral galaxy M81 alongside the ...

The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lupus. The Hubble Space Telescope captured ... the star is at the dense heart of NGC 5530," ESA officials ...

The X-ray data, shown in purple, highlights the presence of hot gas concentrated within the X-ray galaxy group. These X-ray data come from ESA’s XMM-Newton space observatory, with contributions ...

The small portion of the exploding-star formed celestial body showed dark clouds of hydrogen gas spewing out amidst the expanse of space. Hubble even grabbed snaps of galaxy NGC 5335, which is ...