For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...
Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...
ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.
Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...
Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.
The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...
Not only are they supermassive black holes, but they crate a unique "wagging tail" of super-charged particles.
The galaxy’s vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive ...
In a historic observation, scientists have recorded the first-ever radio image in which two supermassive black holes can be ...
Dark matter is a fundamental hypothesis when it comes to our understanding of the universe, but it remains a hypothesis. We ...
Late October presents a perfect opportunity to spot the ancient light of the Andromeda galaxy as it climbs high overhead to ...
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gas by two spiral arms. This is what PhD ...