It is no secret that at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole better known as Sagittarius A ...
In a breakthrough study that redefines how we view the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have captured the first-ever direct ...
Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.
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 ...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...
Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...
Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.
"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...
Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...
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 ...
Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the MBH ...
The galaxy’s vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive black hole at its centre.