In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with immense gravity, yet no visible companion, quietly roaming the depths of the ...

They have refined the estimate of the black hole mass, ruling out the possibility of it being a neutron star. It is thought ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked ...

Using the Hubble and Gaia space telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a powerfully magnetic neutron star in the Milky ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed a roaming magnetar of a different origin, indicating the possibility of understanding ...

Researchers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy ...

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

A black hole 600,000 times the mass of the Sun was discovered close to the Milky Way, and it is shooting stars at us. Home to a monster black hole ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby galaxy to our Milky Way, is undergoing a dramatic transformation, according to recent research. The study reveals that the gravitational pull of the ...

"This could potentially change our understanding of the history of the three-body interaction between the two Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way." ...