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 ...
Binary stars can’t survive long near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole — but for the first time, astronomers have ...
The newly discovered binary was found in a dense cluster of stars and other objects orbiting Sagittarius A*, called the S cluster. Most enigmatic in this cluster are the G objects, which behave like ...
There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, ...
Scientists have discovered two stars orbiting each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. At ...