A black hole 600,000 times the mass of the Sun was discovered close to the Milky Way, and it is shooting stars at us. Home to a monster black hole ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

A group of international researchers have discovered a binary star orbiting near a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The study, published in the peer-reviewed ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is associated ... researchers recently spotted a pair of stars orbiting around one another in surprisingly close proximity to ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Scientists have uncovered the strongest evidence yet for the existence of elusive intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), long ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

The galaxy in question also possesses vastly more dark matter than the Milky Way ... of stars, and a stellar ring — despite possessing one of the most violent supermassive black holes ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

Astronomers have discovered "space tornadoes" raging through the heart of the Milky Way in the vicinity of our galaxy's central supermassive black hole ... offset from any star-forming regions ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behaviour in real time." Related: Supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is approaching the cosmic ...