Omega Centauri is a globular cluster – a large, dense, spherical glob of stars bound tightly together by gravity. It's around ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

Black holes continue to be some of the most fascinating celestial objects in the Universe – and odd things are being ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

The team compared two types of galaxies: those harboring X-ray-emitting black holes and those without. Using Webb’s ...

New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky Way star cluster. The new findings imply that, rather than a ...

Learn how two orbiting stars endure the gravitational forces of nearby Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole at the ...

Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has shut ...