Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a black hole. It was first spotted in 2018 by a camera at the Palomar ...

Learn about the closest black hole from Earth, Gaia BH1. This recently discovered black hole is dormant, but it’s only 1,600 ...

Scientists are observing the most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, apparently caused when ...

It came from nothing less than a supermassive black hole located at the center of a distant galaxy. Although the event ...

The center of the Milky Way twinkles in microwave radiation, seen in new data obtained by astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. This study could help ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided ...

One of the Milky Way’s smallest galactic neighbours seems to have a supermassive black hole at its centre, upending ...