Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a fleeting, spectral flash from the Milky Way’s central black hole, a signal that ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

Space itself is scary enough—dark, vast, cold and empty—but galaxies have all manner of terrifying beasts lurking inside. Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, ...

Even though the black hole in the galactic core is millions of times bigger than the sun, you don't have to worry about ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...

Scientists are observing the most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, apparently caused when ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns ...