Gatsby, a black cat, has a white, spotted pattern resembling a galaxy of stars on his coat. He took the internet by storm after a video of him shared to Instagram on July 1 went viral.

New James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that the galaxy GS-9209 had its star-forming power abruptly "quenched" by mysterious forces after millions of years of productivity.

A dwarf galaxy that appears to harbor a supermassive black hole far bigger than expected may have had most of its stars stolen from it by the Milky Way, scientists have proposed.

Out There What Do You Call a Galaxy Without Stars? To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible.

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The bigger the supermassive black hole, the more gas is purged from the galaxy, causing the "death" of that galaxy through the quelling of star birth.

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen in the galaxy next door. This appears to be the closest supermassive ...

Estimated to be 600,000 times the mass of our Sun, this enormous black hole is now suspected of moving steadily toward our galaxy—raising new questions about the future dynamics of the Milky Way.

Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a black hole in the act of devouring a star, ripping it apart and creating a huge burst of radiation.

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rare glimpse into how stars can endure — at least briefly ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.