Astronomers discovered a star being ripped apart by a black hole in the galaxy SDSS J152120.07+140410.5, 850 million light years away. Researchers pointed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to ...

Disk-driven shape. The DNA nebula is about 80 light-years long. It's about 300 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The nebula is nearly perpendicular to ...

Curiosity makes its third foray into Martian soil, nebulae light up a winter night, and Hubble peers into deep space in this week's best space photos. February 27, 2015 Related Topics ...

In space, no one can hear you scream, but on Earth we have ways of turning space objects into haunting soundtracks. Galaxies, black holes and nebulae come to life via audio, giving us a new way to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, and has made over 1.6 million observations including the Eagle Nebula, and the Hubble Deep Field, which revolutionized the way we understand the ...

An artist’s impression showing what the binary star system VFTS 243 – containing a black hole and a large luminous star orbiting each other - might look like if we were observing it up close ...

The first melody captures the potential birth of a black hole. It surrounds a massive star named WR 124 violently shedding its outer layers, producing a glowing nebula of expelled gas and dust ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

These bright colors also serve to reveal the jets of high-energy particles that are being shot outward by the nebula’s central black hole, a microquasar known as SS 433 (red dot at center).

It's the first time a "dormant" black hole has been unambiguously detected outside the Milky Way, the researchers say. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at ...

NASA often shares beautiful images of deep space and black holes. ... AG Carinae, is surrounded by a five-light-year-wide nebula, roughly the distance to Alpha Centauri.