Astronomers have uncovered compelling evidence of a massive black hole lurking inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. By tracing hypervelocity stars flung across ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers usually detect black holes by looking for X-rays. When gas and dust fall toward a black hole, they heat up and ...

A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

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 ...