An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

The question is a throwback to the ancient Greeks, who first came up with the notion that everything is composed of tiny atoms. Yet here we sit, still asking that question. When our telescopes survey ...

Astronomers have discovered a galaxy harboring more dark matter than any seen before. The galaxy is a small group of about 1,000 small, dim stars just outside the Milky Way called Segue 1. But while ...