Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In a preprint paper ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Look to the east and west after dark this week, and you’ll quickly see two very bright “stars” in the evening sky.

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible ...

More than half of all stars in the sky have one or more companions, yet until now, none have been found near a supermassive black hole. Astronomers attribute this absence to the extreme gravity ...