NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

Their detailed analysis demonstrates that all of them can be explained by the known stellar populations in the Milky Way or the Large Magellanic Cloud itself, not by black holes. "That indicates ...

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

stellar-mass black holes in the Large Magellanic Cloud more than 165,000 light-years away. IXPE also observed a number of supermassive black holes, including the one at the center of the Circinus ...

Black holes are just one of myriad marvels ... A Hubble Space Telescope image of supernova 1987A, in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 6543, the ...

This new installment in this gruesome tale involved the remains of the destroyed star, which have settled around this killer black hole like a graveyard, forming a flattened cloud of stellar material.

From nebulas and black holes to baby star nurseries and ancient collisions, the universe has never looked more beautiful ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud holds some three billion stars, and the Large Cloud perhaps 30 billion. For another, the clouds don't look like the disheveled spheroidal dwarf galaxies that closely ...

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic ... leaving behind black holes or neutron stars, will ...

This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars. This Hubble image shows bright ...

To understand the very large in ... which tally with black holes weighing up to five thousand million suns. The theory goes like this: a galaxy evolves from a vast rotating cloud of gas that ...