The Whirlpool Galaxy is an astrophotography classic, all swirling arms and bright stars. A new composite image of optical and X-ray wavelengths layers in a map of neutron stars and black holes ...

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Ever wish you had x-ray vision? NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory does and used it to make this eerie, new view of the famous Whirlpool Galaxy in Hunting Dogs constellation. Gone are the familiar ...

Twin orbs of superhot plasma at the Milky Way's center known as the "Fermi bubbles" contain inexplicable clouds of cold ...

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

Researchers have mapped out regions of cold gas within the Whirlpool Galaxy, ... such as when they are heated up as they whirl around the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s heart.

“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...

The type of black hole that’s sitting in the center of a galaxy is different. This is a supermassive black hole, or SMBH, and — as its name implies — it’s much heftier.

It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy. Space. That galaxy next door? It's home to a monster black hole. March 6, 2025 1:05 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered.