Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In a preprint paper that has not yet completed peer review, the astronomers who demonstrated ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system HH 1177 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESO ...

Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large Magellanic Cloud ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of the colorful clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large ...

Rare X-ray flash XRT 200515 spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud Scientists suggest a neutron star or magnetar as a possible source Future observations may reveal a new cosmic phenomenon ...

A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...

Additionally filamentary clouds tend to have faster velocities and at an increasing width relative to their columns' density, “consistent with the relationship observed in the [Large Magellanic ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...