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

Gaia space telescope data reveals a previously undetected supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), estimated to be 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after ...

A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. A potential collision between this hidden black hole and the Milky Way’s Sagittarius A could occur in two billion ...

In 2023, gravitational wave detectors picked up the signature of a collision 7 billion light years away. Two black holes had ...

Artist's impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud. The light of a background star located in the LMC is bent by a putative ...

Four powerful lasers were launched into the night sky above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, each creating an artificial ...

When scientists aimed the European Space Agency's X-ray observatory, XMM-Newton, at two mysterious lights on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, they discovered an unexpected source: two ...

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud at speeds equivalent to 80 times the speed of sound. When ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbours, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. ESA/Hubble & ...