A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

Fallstreaks, often called “hole punch clouds,” occur when conditions in a mid-or-high level cloud deck consist of supercooled water droplets — or water droplets that can actually exist as a ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

The black holes have hundreds of thousands to billions of times the sun's mass. They may have been created by the gravitational collapse of giant gas clouds that formed the galaxies, from the ...

Most galaxies are thought to have such a black hole at their core, but this represents the first evidence for one within the Large Magellanic Cloud. According to the researchers, data on the ...

Observations suggest that these black holes are disrupting and consuming a massive gas cloud, creating an oscillating light pattern unlike anything seen before. “This is a very unusual event ...

In 2007, scientists discovered a mysterious cloud near our galaxy’s black hole. This cloud, which has since been named X7, is expected to be devours by the black hole within the next 13 years.