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

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has looked back into deep time to find “rubies” or “little red dots” stretched across the ...

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

It could affect how scientists view dark matter, supermassive black holes, and the creation of galaxies like the Milky Way.

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated plasma. Sagittarius A* at the center of our galaxy has seemed oddly quiet, ...

In the past, astronomers have managed to image the black hole in the center of the Milky Way and in a nearby galaxy called Messier 87. "Quasar OJ287 is so bright that it can be detected even by ...

There’s the infamous zoo hypothesis, which supposes that advanced aliens know about our planet but stay away to let us evolve ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, according to an international team of researchers led by Wout Goesaert (Leiden ...

Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in the universe. A team from NTNU suggests that colossal winds from ...

At the center of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted by high-energy objects such as rapidly rotating or exploding stars. NASA’s ...