A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark ...

The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a rare "Einstein ring," revealing two distant galaxies in an optical illusion ...

A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...

"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense within the context of a major merger." ...

As part of ESA/Hubble's 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) shared new images that revisited ...

Hubble astronomers have discovered that the more massive a galaxy's bulge, the bigger its central black hole—which captures everything it can get its gravitational mitts on, including light—is ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

Roughly 100 years ago, American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that “spiral nebulae” were actually independent galaxies, located millions of light years away from us. He also figured out that ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI) In September 1990, five months after its launch, Hubble captured a striking example of gravitational lensing: The light from a distant quasa ...