Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

It is no secret that at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole better known as Sagittarius A ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) reveals a stunning view of star-forming region Sagittarius C ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they finally think they have an answer. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes ...

Combining a quantum-inspired algorithm and quantum information processing technologies could enable researchers to measure ...

Standing on Earth and gazing out into the night sky, you’d think our Milky Way galaxy is relatively calm. Most nearby ...

Dark matter is a fundamental hypothesis when it comes to our understanding of the universe, but it remains a hypothesis. We ...