The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...
Black holes often appear in science fiction movies, largely because elements of their existence are still a mystery. They ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified two pairs of supermassive black holes on the brink of merging, an event never observed before in the cosmos. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
Astronomers have discovered a "missing link:" a tiny black hole lurking with a red giant star in a strange and ...
Strange, ultraheavy stars that are rich in barium grow massive by cannibalizing their companions, scientists discover after ...
We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...
NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted — about as long as 140 Milky ...
One of the observations is of supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ...
A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...
The Milky Way also has a supermassive black hole at its core: Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star"). The Milky Way above the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, above the European Southern ...
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.