Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. - ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the ...

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

New evidence reveals the Milky Way’s black hole once erupted, genes hide mutation hot spots, and AI accelerates sodium ...

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million ...

The Milky Way’s black hole, Sagittarius A* Abhishek Joshi / UIUC Black holes keep their secrets close. They imprison forever anything that enters. Light itself can’t escape a black hole’s hungry pull.

The canonical image of a supermassive spacetime abyss anchored at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is challenged by ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided ...