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

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

It is no secret that at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole better known as Sagittarius A ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they finally think they have an answer. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes ...

The galaxy’s vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive black hole at its centre.