Recently, the astronomical community celebrated a groundbreaking discovery—scientists have observed a supermassive black hole ...

Recently, there has been big news in the field of astronomy! Scientists have detected a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Once this news broke, many people began to worry: ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided ...

Scientists ultimately settled on a feeding black hole at the heart of a far-distant galaxy as the most likely engine for 3C ...

The supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* lies in the middle of the Milky Way. Observations of S2 and other stars also helped astronomers calculate the extraordinary size and mass of ...

The new black hole is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at centre of our Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomer de Graaff from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and her team reveal what could be behind the small red dots ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe has been spotted blasting out powerful jets of plasma that are at least twice as long as the Milky Way is wide. Its host galaxy is a quasar called ...

Discover 9 breathtaking Milky Way images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the galaxy’s stunning structure ...

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory is the agency's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy. On Sept. 5, 2001, NASA announced that ...

Some galaxies could grow so large by consuming one star from a binary system. April 8, 2012— -- For years, astronomers have puzzled over the diet needed to bulk up supermassive black holes – ...