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

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

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

Astronomers have used the Very Large Telescope to discover the first binary stars around the supermassive black hole at the ...

M87* stands out from the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Our home supermassive black hole has a mass equal to that of around 4.3 million suns, while M87* has ...

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.

A monster lurks in the heart of many galaxies, a supermassive black hole able to devour entire stars in a blink. These objects can be dormant, like the core of our own Milky Way galaxy ...

2024 — Researchers have discovered compelling evidence suggesting that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is likely the result ...

An artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole (SMBH.) The JWST has revealed ... the SMBH at the center of the Milky Way. According to the most widely accepted cosmological models, these ...

located just under 55 million light-years from the Milky Way, was chosen for humanity's first image of the shadow of a supermassive black hole partially because its central black hole is actively ...

Astronomers have uncovered a mysterious phenomenon involving a jet from a supermassive black hole that collided ... density plays a key role in the formation of new stars. The way the black hole’s ...