In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

Within nearly every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. The beast at the heart of our galaxy contains the mass of millions of suns, while some of the largest supermassive black holes can be more than ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion ...

Nearly every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its heart. The one in the middle of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A (with an asterisk denoting star), is about 4 million times more ...

According to the team's modeling and calculations with the added pulsar data, the motions of the stars in the center of Omega ...

The team compared two types of galaxies: those harboring X-ray-emitting black holes and those without. Using Webb’s ...

Has the decades-long mystery behind the strange star movements in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s largest star cluster, finally been solved? Omega Centauri has been studied to determine if its high ...

Credit: ESO/F. Peißker et al., S. Guisard. Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery near Sagittarius A*, the ...

Galactic Burp In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an ...

Quickly moving primordial black holes might leave tiny holes in regular matter as they tunnel through, leaving traces we ...

Noting that, Dr Lineweaver and a fellow physicist, Vihan Patel, devised a single chart onto which every known object in the ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...