Beats me. But they sure are pretty! The image above is a new release from Hubble, and shows the lovely M81, a spiral galaxy just 12 million light years away. That’s close, as cosmic ...

Researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA) have captured some of the most striking images ever of the galaxy M81 and the supermassive black hole it contains. ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Space ...

Bell, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues used the Subaru telescope in Hawaii to hunt for faint clumps of stars, indicating dwarf galaxies, around the galaxy M81.

The image, released yesterday, shows the intense light emitted by material just before it is swallowed up by an active black hole in the M81 spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major ...