Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The core of the spectacular globular cluster Omega Centauri ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now exploring the depths of the Universe with youth and vigor, so you'd think the veteran Hubble telescope won't make it in the news all that much. Yet here it ...

An international team of astronomers used more than 500 images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope – spanning two decades of observations – to detect seven fast-moving stars in the innermost region of ...

A new image comprising more than 500 images from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spanning two decades of the innermost region of Omega Centauri provides new evidence for the existence of an ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Most black holes come it two sizes—stellar or supermassive. But a handful of ...

An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from the NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope spanning two decades to detect seven fast-moving stars in the ...

There may be a strange, in-between kind of black hole lurking at the heart of a star cluster not too far away. At the center of the Omega Centauri cluster — a dense ball of stars about 17,000 light ...

(Nanowerk News) Omega Centauri is a spectacular collection of 10 million stars, visible as a smudge in the night sky from Southern latitudes. Through a small telescope, it looks no different from ...

Most known black holes are either extremely massive, like the supermassive black holes that lie at the cores of large galaxies, or relatively lightweight, with a mass of under 100 times that of the ...

From left to right: The globular star cluster Omega Centauri as a whole, a zoomed-in version of the central area, and the region in the very center with the location of the mid-size black hole that ...