NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

A supermassive black hole, estimated to be 600,000 times larger than the Sun, is making its way toward the Milky Way, ...

A hidden 600,000-solar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud is on course to collide with the Milky Way in 2 billion ...

The Milky Way galaxy, home to our solar system, is no stranger to the vast cosmic forces that shape the universe. Yet, an ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is gradually moving toward the Milky Way and scientists estimate that the two galaxies might ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...