Spoiler warning: Below there will be information about today's New York Times Strands puzzle.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion.

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up ... comes their way—not even light can ...

The star, marked with four long diffraction spikes, is in our own galaxy. It's just 7,109 light-years away from Earth. The galaxy, named NGC 4900, lies about 45 million light-years from Earth.

Though visually dynamic, it shows minimal star formation and hosts a massive but dormant black hole. The galaxy's unique hybrid structure—featuring traits of both spiral and elliptical ...

A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up and shooting out X-ray flares at ...