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 ...

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

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

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

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

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

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

2024 — Researchers have discovered compelling evidence suggesting that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is likely the result ...

Yale researchers among those who discovered three “ultra-massive” galaxies, which were formed shortly after the Big Bang and ...

From missing links, to primordial beginnings, to extremely powerful plasma jets that could be shaping our universe in ...