Astronomers propose that instead of a black hole, another dark object could be dominating the Milky Way's center.

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), ...

Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC ...

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky ...

This faraway, ancient ball of stars may have been captured from another galaxy that passed too close to the Milky Way.

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

Researchers have modeled a concentration of fermionic dark matter that could explain the Milky Way’s central gravity without ...

Long-held assumptions about what lies at the center of the Milky Way could be incorrect, as new international research ...