NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising trait: They are unusually calm and quiet in terms of harsh radiation. This ...

A sweeping new ALMA image has peeled back the veil on the Milky Way’s core, exposing a dense network of cold gas filaments near the central black hole. Stretching across 650 light-years, the survey ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

Astronomers have finally captured an image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

There is something inherently terrifying about a supermassive black hole hurtling through space at an excess of three million kilometers per hour. As a hint, the acronym “RBH” stands for “runaway ...

They’re struggling to connect the dots. Scientists are baffled over mysterious dots captured by the James Webb Space Telescope — with some suggesting they could be giant stars from the origins of the ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

After a new upgrade, a neutrino observatory in Antarctica may identify dormant supermassive black holes within our galaxy.