For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole sitting at the core of the Milky Way. It has a mass of 4.3 million times our ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

Sagittarius A* flickers every hour, making it a challenging target for telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The James Webb ...

An artist’s concept of a hypervelocity star streaking through the Milky Way, surrounded by slower-moving stars. An astonishing fact only known for the past few decades is that every big galaxy in the ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

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 ...

The center of the Milky Way twinkles in microwave radiation, seen in new data obtained by astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This study could help ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...