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

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 ...

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

Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman on Friday filed charges against eight additional people for crimes committed during California's deadly wildfires. Hochman joins “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” ...

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

Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Dec. 17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting ... Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star ...

In 2018, a distant black hole ... way to get your period to change when you’re in orbit, and that’s to change the actual distance of that orbit,” she said. So, some object may be orbiting ...

Black holes are some of the universe's greatest mysteries, incredibly dense and sometimes massive void that suck in anything and everything that passes their event horizons. Now a relatively nearby ...

The European Space Agency's Milky Way-mapper Gaia has completed the sky-scanning phase of its mission, racking up more than 3 ...