For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...
Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...
Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.
Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ...
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 ...
In a breakthrough study that redefines how we view the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have captured the first-ever direct ...
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 ...
Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...
Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...
The Milky Way’s galactic center (inset) is home to strange, death-defying stars that manage to survive close encounters with our galaxy’s supermassive black hole. New research reveals the unintended ...
For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The ...