Massive runaway stars in the Milky Way: Observational study explores origins and ejection process

Researchers from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) and the Institute of Space Studies ...
Astronomy on MSN

New JWST imagery dives into the center of the Milky Way

Massive stars have an outsized influence on their environment and the galaxies they call home. These behemoths have the ...

Gaze into the Milky Way’s black hole with NASA’s ‘back catalog’ of X-ray data

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

Journey to center of Milky Way with upcoming NASA Roman core survey

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...
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Astronomers discover a gigantic, wobbling black hole jet that 'changes the way we think about the galaxy'

Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...
Space on MSN

Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole imagery transformed into sound

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Milky Way's massive black hole spaghettified filament of gas

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

It sounds like something out of a movie, but NASA says it’s real—the black hole in the Milky Way that is about to wake up

We might be on track to hit a supermassive black hole a lot sooner than anyone expected. Tucked away inside the Large ...
Frontline

Black Hole’s wild youth; the genome’s soft spot; AI gives sodium batteries a shortcut

New evidence reveals the Milky Way’s black hole once erupted, genes hide mutation hot spots, and AI accelerates sodium ...
Scientific American

The Milky Way’s Central Black Hole May Have Appeared Shockingly Different Just a Few Hundred Years Ago

New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed dramatically in the span of just a few hundred years ...

Black hole space volcano erupts after 100-million-year nap

A supermassive black hole is reawakening inside a distant galaxy cluster—and after almost 100 million years of slumber, ...
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Reborn black hole seen erupting across 1 million light-years of space like a cosmic volcano

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...