"With the room lights dimmed, a greenish luminous spot the size of a pinpoint could be seen with the unaided eye, near the ...
A supermassive black hole dubbed Sagittarius A* lurks at the heart of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The region surrounding ...
But it might also mean the opposite: as they grow bigger, the universe expands. Dark energy is just a substance, a form of ...
Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), published Tuesday in Nature ...
An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...
By Françoise Combes - Astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory A new analysis of radiotelescope data links the shapes of ...
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 ...
A gamma-ray flare from a black hole 6.5 billion times the Sun’s mass leaves scientists stunned.