Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times more massive than the sun, a pair of stars locked ...

Using observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope, the team estimates that the two stars are quite young, maybe around 2.7 ...

Scientists have discovered a binary star system, D9, orbiting Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.

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

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 ...

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