This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found exciting new clues suggesting that a supermassive black hole may be hiding at the center of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 83 (M83), also ...

Scientists have found an unusual neon glow near the center of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy for the first time. The new research, published in The Astrophysical Journal, upends prior thinking about the ...

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

compact central portion of a galaxy. Also known as the Southern Pinwheel, M83 is 15 million light-years away from Earth and was discovered back in 1752. "With an apparent magnitude of 7.5 ...