In a breakthrough study that redefines how we view the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have captured the first-ever direct ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object called “The Cliff” appears to show that many of the mysterious “little red ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

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 ...

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

The Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A* Abhishek Joshi / UIUC Black holes keep their secrets close. They imprison forever anything that enters. Light itself can’t escape a black hole’s hungry pull.