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

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

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

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 ...

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 ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way apparently flared up dramatically relatively recently. An echo of ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

Astronomers have unveiled the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Nearly all galaxies, including our own, are believed to have these ...

The Sgr A* black hole, which, when you look into it, looks also into you (image courtesy Event Horizon Telescope collaboration) “The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat's, ...

Do all stars exist in galaxies, or do some exist in intergalactic space?Thomas GriffilthAtlantic City, New Jersey Nearly all ...

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.

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