There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, ...

Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has shut ...

NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be "tipped over," rotating in an ...

International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to Sagittarius A*.

An international research team has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe massive galaxies discovered by the ...

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in Nature ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Nearly every large galaxy has a supermassive ...

It was previously thought that the gravitational forces around a black hole were too extreme for such a star system to ...