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

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

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

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 at about 4 million times that of the Sun[1][2]. The EHT data also showed ...

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

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

Scientists have been actively observing Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)— a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times the mass of the Sun— since the early 1990s. Sgr A* regularly exhibits flares that can ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it could help explain why these strange outbursts occur.. Sagittarius A ...

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Many of them are ...