Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A Hubble Space Telescope ...

Several stellar-mass black holes may be lurking inside or near the Hyades star cluster, roughly 150 light-years from Earth, according to N-body simulations published in Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Westerlund 1, the biggest and closest "super" star cluster to Earth, dazzles in this image released on July 23, 2025. This view combines X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (in pink, blue ...

Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are massive, dense and compact stellar systems found in all types of galaxies, from dwarfs to massive galaxies. With masses between 10,000 and 100 million solar masses and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Using the combined power of the James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes, astronomers have studied thousands of young star clusters ...

The massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes left behind by exploding stars, yet evidence for them is scarce. Now, ...

Astronomers may have found an answer to two long-standing mysteries about the universe with a single new idea. A study led by ...