Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

If this is the case, it will be the first time astronomers have spotted such bodies beyond the limits of our own galaxy. The ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has shown that dark matter is concentrated within the core of a nearby dwarf galaxy, a finding that rushes to the rescue of the Standard Model of cosmology. This model ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

Simulations of the evolution and distribution of elements inside galaxies suggest that the most likely birthplace of these stars would have been a small dwarf galaxy, weighing no more than roughly ...

Scientists have been left puzzled after discovering a mysterious galaxy, which they say is almost invisible. Named Nube, the dwarf galaxy is thought to be located around 300 million light years ...

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...