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 ...

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.

Explore 8 stunning deep space pictures captured by NASA, showing galaxies, nebulas, black holes, and cosmic wonders that ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is located 160,000 light-years from Earth in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. It is the largest of the Milky Way ’s many small satellite galaxies.