The research team, led by Steven Dillmann of Stanford University was scouring decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

A supermassive black hole, six lakh times the mass of the Sun, is moving towards the Milky Way from the Large Magellanic ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Arizona's dark skies are a haven for astronomers and photographers. Some communities are fighting to keep them that way.

Scientists observed constant flares from the Milky Way's black hole, revealing unpredictable and intense activity.