New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

The object at the Milky Way’s center has long been treated as a settled case: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million individual X-ray light detections collected through 2021. The latest examples from ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...