The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Galactic gravity can dramatically impact wide binary stars, pushing them towards unexpected mergers or collisions. The ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our ... galaxy — a baby clone of the Milky Way being 'assembled brick by brick' in the early ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Astronomers have detected a binary star system orbiting Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times ...