The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Space & Spaceflight Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before Astronomers have never detected mid-infrared flares from our galaxy's supermassive black hole—until now.

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

Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind.

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

(Left) the relatively quiet black hole at the heart of the Milky Way (Right) the violent and turbulent supermassive black ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before seen.