Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Since July 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has revolutionized our cosmic understanding, delivering breathtaking images.

Learn about the new research that changes the estimates of the Milky Way’s demise.

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the bigger and closer of the two, and it’s not clear if it harbors a supermassive black hole (SMBH). If such an SMBH exists there, it must be quiescent ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is one of the Milky Way’s closest neighbors. It’s a small, irregular galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, and is an easy naked-eye object from the Southern ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, photographed here by the Hubble Space Telescope, is about 160,000 light-years from Earth. NASA. Astronomers may have just solved an intergalactic “whodunit.” ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbor. The research, published in January ...

A hidden black hole may exist in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Evidence has emerged through the discovery of hypervelocity stars at the edge of the Milky Way, ...

"The Large Magellanic Cloud, given its mass and structure, is totally expected to have a supermassive black hole of this mass. We just needed to find the evidence for it," Han said.

However, while Sgr A* has a mass about 4 million times that of the Sun, the black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud is significantly smaller, with a mass of about 600,000 times that of the Sun.