Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Black holes are some of the universe's greatest mysteries, incredibly dense and sometimes massive void that suck in anything ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...

There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...