New research suggests that the x-ray light coming from the Milky Way’s central black hole Sagittarius A* has changed ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way apparently flared up dramatically relatively recently. An echo of ...

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used ...

Astronomers already knew that the Milky Way hosts a central black hole, weighing some four million suns. From Earth, this black hole is a dense, tiny thing in the constellation Sagittarius, only as ...

Astronomers have completed the most comprehensive census of active galactic nuclei (AGN) to date, providing the clearest ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...