The center of the Milky Way twinkles in microwave radiation, seen in new data obtained by astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This study could help ...

Where did these energy pulses come from? Why had they gone unnoticed before, only to suddenly appear now? I started ...

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

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 ...

International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to Sagittarius A*.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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