Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...

A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster in question is called Palomar ... stream ...

17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre ... Heart of the Milky Way's Largest ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes ... Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from ...

The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end - over 32 times the size of the Milky Way ...

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