This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

The four Unit Telescopes of the VLT, seen just right of centre in this ... arching over the site. In the image, the four smaller Auxiliary Telescopes are also visible. Astronomers use different ...

A gorgeous new set of images shows the striking sight of nearby galaxies, captured by a telescope called the VLT Survey ...

An image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1086 obtained by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The galaxy has a distance of 47 million light-years and is one of the nearest ...

VLT, an interferometer consisting of four 28-foot-wide (8.5 m) telescopes that work together as one, is one of the world's most powerful astronomical instruments. It captured the first ever image ...

"At the very center of nearly every galaxy is a supermassive black hole," ESO officials said in a statement accompanying the new VLT image on March 31. "Some, like the one at the center of our own ...