A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky ...

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.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured imagery of supernova 2018 GV from 2018-2019. It was seen in barred spiral galaxy NGC 2525 ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

S agittarius A*, the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of our galaxy, is not as placid as previously thought, new observations with the JWST reveal. Instead, the surrounding accretion disk ...

An astrophysicist from Vanderbilt University has calculated exactly what would happen if you were hit by a primordial black ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...