Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

From where Sagittarius A* sits, 26,000 light-years away at the center of the Milky Way, only 1 in 10 billion photons of visible light can reach Earth — most are absorbed by gas in the way.

In 2020, Genzel and Ghez shared the Nobel Prize in physics for providing the most convincing evidence for the existence of the Milky Way’s central black hole. And the galactic center ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

"Once you do, it's just spectacular," said Aileen O'Donoghue, astronomer with St. Lawrence University and the Adirondack Sky ...

The center of our galaxy is visible overnight on summer evenings, just off the tip of the Sagittarius Teapot’s spout in the ...

The emergence of our solar system could be the result of dwarf galaxy Sagittarius crashing into the Milky Way billions of years ago. New research, based on data from the orbital telescope Gaia ...

For example, the dwarf galaxy Sagittarius entered the Milky Way around 5 or 6 billion years ago. It was an elliptical galaxy, but its present remains are not very structured, ...

Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, says Abigail Beall ...

Sagittarius was first discovered in 1994 as a satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. As it orbits the Milky Way, Sagittarius is pulled in tighter due to the galaxy's gravitational force, and ...