A hidden monster black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud fired runaway stars at the Milky Way at millions of miles per hour.

"The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the best-studied galaxies, yet this supermassive black hole's existence was only inferred indirectly by tracing the origins of fast-moving stars. We have more ...

Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics image: Artist's impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud.

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...

Astronomers have identified a supermassive black hole, approximately 600,000 times the mass of our Sun, concealed within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)—a satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.

Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...