The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially ...

One key characteristic of a supermassive black hole is the duo of the extragalactic jets of material that form around its ...

New research, utilizing data from the Gaia space telescope, suggests that the Milky Way's last significant collision occurred ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every ...

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A new study led by the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and with contributions from Radboud University's Marijke ...

According to the researchers, Sagittarius A* is like a powerful engine that sucks matter now and then and spits it out at ...

Black holes often appear in science fiction movies, largely because elements of their existence are still a mystery. They ...

And, if the timing is right, you might even see a hazy belt stretched across the sky—the starry, dusty core of our very own Milky Way galaxy. Right now is a peak time for United States-based ...

Most of the exoplanets we've discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn't because red dwarfs are somehow special, simply that ...

Astronomers studying the Milky Way's supermassive black hole have found ... which is completely misaligned with our galaxy's rotation — was best explained by a massive merger event with the ...