Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal to billions of suns and has an accretion disk made up of gas and dust surrounding it.

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

The Milky Way has its own supermassive black hole ... it appears inevitable that the core will collapse into a "stellar-mass" black hole. Supermassive black holes have millions or even billions ...

Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster Dec. 9, 2024 — Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars ...

The observations detailed the extreme environment in the immediate vicinity of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* is ...

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Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, a finding researchers said could reveal details about ...