At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided with another black hole in just the past 10 million years. At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 ...

Black holes are considered cosmic gluttons, from which not even light can escape. That is also why the images of black holes ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a product of over two decades of collaboration between NASA, CSA, and ESA, has made a remarkable discovery. From its home in a stable orbit in Lagrange point 2, ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...