When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New calculations suggest that the universe's most enduring celestial objects, such as white dwarf ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years away. Unlike most, it is actively feeding and producing radio jets, making it ...

A strange and violent fate awaits a white dwarf star that wanders too close to a moderately massive black hole. According to a new study, the black hole’s gravitational pull on the white dwarf would ...

The Milky Way has millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But does the galaxy have any medium-sized black holes? New research suggests the answer is yes: ...

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an active black hole, more ...

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every ...

"Fortunately, it still takes a very long time." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As the story of our cosmos moves forward, stars ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument discovers a treasure trove of active black holes in dwarf galaxies and reveals that surprisingly few are of intermediate mass DESI is a state-of-the-art ...