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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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

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

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

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster ... from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way ...

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

He added: “If we didn’t have a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy, there might be many more stars in the sky. “That’s just one example of how black holes can influence a ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...

Scientists discover 2 stars dancing around the Milky Way's black hole — and they could point to a type of planet never seen before —Baby stars that defy explanation are 'swarming like bees ...

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