Observations of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, collected by the James Webb Space ...

The Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is 26,000 light-years away from us. It is four million times the mass of the sun and 14.6 million miles wide. New observations from the ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows a "cosmic tornado" flowing around Sgr A,* the Milky Way's central ...

The JWST's MIRI detected a flare in Sagittarius A*, revealing for the first time in mid-infrared how an explosion occurs near ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. - ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided with ...

The center of the Milky Way twinkles in microwave radiation, seen in new data obtained by astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This study could help ...

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of light from Earth's southern hemisphere and named after ...

Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak. This supermassive black hole looks like it still has the vestiges of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years. NASA's Hubble Space ...