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

Scientists know stars can form near and even orbit these black hole behemoths, but they’ve never seen a pair of stars survive ...

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way ...

"Black holes are not as destructive as we thought. It seems plausible that the detection of planets in the galactic center is ...

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

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

In 2022, NASA released the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It is about 4 million times the mass of the Sun.

Previously, scientists believed that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was a sleeping giant. It would periodically awaken to devour any star of gas clouds that fell into it.

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery. It's called Centaurus A, and huge jets of plasma shooting from its central ...