International researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to ...
Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc. This disc forms near the black hole’s ...
A supermassive black hole dubbed Sagittarius A* lurks at the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The region surrounding ...
Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ...
Scientists know stars can form near and even orbit these black hole behemoths, but they’ve never seen a pair of stars survive ...
At about 2.7 million years old, the twin stars seem to be fairly young. Scientists said they appear to orbit each other at ...
Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way ...
Binary stars can’t survive long near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole — but for the first time, astronomers have ...
"Black holes are not as destructive as we thought. It seems plausible that the detection of planets in the galactic center is ...