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

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

At about 2.7 million years old, the twin stars seem to be fairly young. Scientists said they appear to orbit each other at ...

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 ...

It was previously thought that the gravitational forces around a black hole were too extreme for such a star system to ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way ... by an "intermediate mass" black hole (IMBH), weighing a ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is ... and are found at the centers of most galaxies, including our Milky Way. You already know what day it is – #BlackHoleFriday, of course!

In 2022, NASA released the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It is about 4 million times the mass of the Sun.

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.