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

An image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, a behemoth dubbed Sagittarius A*, was revealed by the Event Horizon Telescope on May 12, 2022.

From where Sagittarius A* sits, 26,000 light years away at the center of the Milky Way, only 1 in 10 billion photons of visible light can reach Earth – most are absorbed by gas in the way.

The Event Horizon Telescope group released the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole residing at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, on May 12, 2022.

In 2020, Genzel and Ghez shared the Nobel Prize in physics for providing the most convincing evidence for the existence of the Milky Way’s central black hole. And the galactic center ...

Today, the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy is estimated to be about 400 times the mass of Earth's sun — a mere shrimp compared with the Milky Way's estimated mass of 1.5 trillion suns.

The emergence of our solar system could be the result of dwarf galaxy Sagittarius crashing into the Milky Way billions of years ago. New research, based on data from the orbital telescope Gaia ...

Sagittarius was first discovered in 1994 as a satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. As it orbits the Milky Way, Sagittarius is pulled in tighter due to the galaxy's gravitational force, and ...

The Milky Way here is rich in nebulae and star clusters. Look above the spout of the Teapot on a clear dark night, and the fuzzy patch you’ll spot is the Lagoon Nebula.

For example, the dwarf galaxy Sagittarius entered the Milky Way around 5 or 6 billion years ago. It was an elliptical galaxy, but its present remains are not very structured, ...

Before everyone knew about the giant black hole lurking in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, was just an exceptionally bright source of radio emission. But since the discovery of Sagittarius A* ...