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

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy.

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion ...

From mass fluctuations, to Little Red Dots, to new galaxies captured by the James Webb telescope—astronomy has learned a lot ...

According to the team's modeling and calculations with the added pulsar data, the motions of the stars in the center of Omega ...

Has the decades-long mystery behind the strange star movements in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s largest star cluster, finally been solved? Omega Centauri has been studied to determine if its high ...

Credit: ESO/F. Peißker et al., S. Guisard. Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery near Sagittarius A*, the ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

A binary star system is orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky Way star cluster.

Using observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope, the team estimates that the two stars are quite young, maybe around 2.7 ...