New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

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

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course with the Milky Way, a recent study revealed. The LMC's supermassive black ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the object's structure.

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. - ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided with ...

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

Astronomers already knew that the Milky Way hosts a central black hole, weighing some four million suns. From Earth, this black hole is a dense, tiny thing in the constellation Sagittarius, only as ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...

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