A team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole drifting through the Milky Way, unaccompanied by ...

Stranded astronauts and celebrity space tourism have piqued interest in space — and a photography exhibition in the museum is ...

A newly published study in The Astrophysical Journal has revealed the presence of a previously undetected supermassive black ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...

Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

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

After more than a decade of mapping billions of stars across the Milky Way and beyond, a groundbreaking spacecraft is ...

Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have tracked a rare and fast-moving magnetar – called SGR 0501+4516 – as it speeds ...

A decade of observations cast doubt on the typical magnetar origin story, at least as it relates to SGR 0501+4516.

"Magnetar birth rates and formation scenarios are among the most pressing questions in high-energy astrophysics." ...