Astronomers studying the Milky Way's supermassive black hole have found "compelling evidence" that could finally help explain its mysterious past. Located 26,000 light-years away in the center of ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

This black hole is estimated to weigh around 600,000 solar masses, significantly smaller than the supermassive black hole at ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. They found the ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

Milky Way black hole has 'strong, twisted' magnetic field in mesmerizing new image. March 28, 2024 3:53 PM ET. By . Bill Chappell Enlarge this image.

The magnetic field of the Milky Way’s black hole has been pictured for the first time. Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) is the black hole in the middle of our own galaxy, and the new image reveals a ...

First images of Milky Way’s black hole released 02:13. Astronomers have discovered powerful "twisted" magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way ...

BH3 is largest stellar black hole found in Milky Way As its name suggests, BH3 is not the first of its kind to be discovered. The European Space Agency announced the discovery about a year ago of ...

The EHT managed to image the black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*, as well as the black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy M87, M87* — marking the first two ...

Seven strangely-behaving stars in the Milky Way's Omega Centauri cluster may be under the influence of an extremely rare type of black hole, new research suggests. When you purchase through links ...

Supermassive black hole mergers occur when entire galaxies merge together. Bumps and kinks in the Milky Way's disk indicate it likely collided with at least a dozen galaxies during the past 12 ...