For years, astronomers have observed the strange motion of Andromeda, the Milky Way’s closest large galactic neighbor. While ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan shared new insights into the motion of massive stars in a nearby galaxy that could completely transform our understanding of galaxy evolution and interactions.

A team has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. Their findings suggest that the gravitational pull of ...

For more than a century, astronomers have watched in astonishment as the Andromeda galaxy ignored the grand flow of cosmic ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

Scientists have long thought the Milky Way galaxy would someday collide with its closest neighbor, Andromeda. However, new research suggests the future of our cosmic home is more uncertain than ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of... That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black ...

Velocities of massive star candidates within the SMC shown as vectors. The colors of the arrows represent the direction of motion. Relative to the LMC, located at the bottom left of the image, most ...

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 black ...