New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.

ALIEN-HUNTERS have narrowed down their 21-year-search for extraterrestrial life to 100 “signals of interest”. The mammoth ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used ...