Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object in space that may be the smallest galaxy in the Universe, or the oldest star cluster in the Milky Way.

A black hole that can hold 1 million suns has baffled scientists. It resides next to another black hole that can hold 100 million suns. Science & Tech Trending ...

A traveling black hole stalking the cosmos for stellar prey recently revealed itself by shredding a star in a radioactive ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy. These "free-floating" worlds don't orbit stars, but instead roam the ...

On each pass, the star kicks out one Jupiter's worth of mass from the black hole's disk. A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot ...

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