Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

The nearby dwarf galaxy Segue 1 is exceptionally faint for its mass, which has puzzled astronomers almost since its discovery. A new paper proposes this could be because it hosts a ridiculously ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

Feelings of jubilation and the sounds of laughter emanated from the blacktop during Landmark Elementary School’s after-school ...

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Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

Two recently observed black hole mergers, occurring just weeks apart in late 2024, have opened an extraordinary new window ...

Twin black hole collisions detected in 2024 have provided the sharpest-ever test of Einstein’s theory while revealing new details about how black holes form and spin.

The data suggest that the black hole launched powerful outflows months after the star’s destruction, showing that black holes can “reawaken” episodically. Astronomers in Israel and the US have ...