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

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

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

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

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

You may not know it, but right now there’s a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our heads. The chief partygoers ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

This finding supports the existence of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with a mass estimated ... indicating dynamic processes occurring near the event horizon[4].

Scientists have been actively observing Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)— a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million ... field lines of the supermassive black hole. They emit high-energy radiation photons ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...