Messier 87 (M87), also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. It is one ...

Astronomers studying FCC 224, an ultra-diffuse galaxy, have discovered luminous, overmassive globular clusters, providing key ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers from the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) and elsewhere have ...

Globular cluster in Dorado: This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a birthplace for billions of stars.

Unusual detection bolsters evidence that the mysterious signals can be caused by different astrophysical events.

Barber completed her PhD in physics at Washington State University with a focus in astrophysics, studying globular cluster systems. Before working at NPR, she taught physics and astronomy at ...

"A few years ago, the M81 FRB was surprisingly discovered within a dense cluster of stars called a globular cluster," Fong said. "That event single-handedly halted the conventional train of ...

With this new precision, optical telescopes can pivot to identify the type of star groups -- globular clusters, spiral galaxies -- that produce the bursts and hopefully identify the stellar source.

The team found that when jets launched from supermassive black holes strike hot gas between galaxies in galaxy clusters ... heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87), the first black hole imaged ...