Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Galaxy clusters are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster Dec. 9, 2024 — Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.