"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our galaxy's "black hole heart." Credit: ESO ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...

It's as if the black hole basically hurled it out of the galaxy. Sponsor Message Han and his colleagues recently studied 21 of these hypervelocity stars at the fringes of the Milky Way.

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

The Milky Way may have had a second black hole at its heart between 10 billion and 10 million years ago—one that acted a bit like a star goalkeeper.. This is the conclusion of a study by ...

The team found that 2MASX J23453268−0449256 sports a supermassive black hole larger than thought possible for any spiral galaxy. In addition, the black hole is powering colossal jets of ...

Because our own galaxy’s central black hole is roughly a thousand times less massive than M87*, the churning maelstrom around Sagittarius A* can change about a thousand times faster, ...