Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...
Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...
Astronomers discover two new supernova remnants in the Large Magellanic Cloud, providing insights into stellar explosions and their role in shaping galaxy evolution.
"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...
Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...
As the most intense star-forming region in the Local Group, 30 Doradus is of particular importance to astronomers.
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Today, these exotic objects are a fundamental part of our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve. But what of smaller astronomical bodies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite ...
The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.