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

Astronomers have recently uncovered a groundbreaking discovery about the Milky Way’s central black hole,Sagittarius A*, using ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The JWST's MIRI detected a flare in Sagittarius A*, revealing for the first time in mid-infrared how an explosion occurs near ...

Sagittarius A* flickers every hour, making it a challenging target for telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb ...

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

The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...

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 ...

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, ...