Scientists are observing the behaviour of a supermassive black hole that is displaying exceptionally messy eating habits.
There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?
The canonical image of a supermassive spacetime abyss anchored at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is challenged by ...
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...
Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...
Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.
"It is amazing to see that we are gradually moving towards combining these breakthrough observations across multiple frequencies and completing the picture of the jet launching region." ...
Recent James Webb Space Telescope data confirms a decade-old theory that the universe's earliest supermassive black holes ...
NASA's IR space scope explores the Milky Way’s most prolific star-forming region, cracking open new secrets of how stars form ...
Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies ...