The image, taken by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, ...

In a revelation that challenges conventional theories, NASA astronomers have identified a supermassive black hole in the ...

Pictures from the International Space Station do not disappoint, from comets and northern lights to giant hurricanes and ...

A new image resembling a Christmas wreath captures young stars lighting up dense, dark clouds of dust. The image features NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy to the ...

including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust The full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is revealed in this new, detailed view from ...

Fans of Marvel comics, movies, and superheroes should enjoy the company’s gallery of free background images. You’ll find images from several Marvel films, such as “Black Panther,” “Dr ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the glorious ... an especially bright galactic core powered by a feasting supermassive black hole. When a supermassive black hole ensnares gas from ...

The full Chandra image, with C4 circled in yellow. (NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Bogensberger et al.) It also has a very active supermassive black hole and is bursting with star formation, one of the closest ...

In 2022, NASA released the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It is about 4 million times the mass of the Sun.

It's called Centaurus A, and huge jets of plasma shooting from its central supermassive black hole have slammed into something ... Astronomers deployed NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to take the ...

The full Chandra image, with C4 circled in yellow. (NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Bogensberger et al.) It also has a very active supermassive black hole and is bursting with star formation, one of the closest ...

“Even matter ejected by black holes can run into objects in the dark,” the researchers note in a media release, highlighting the unpredictable nature of cosmic interactions. Source C4 in the Centaurus ...