The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...
ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.
For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...
Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...
For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The ...
Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...
Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.
In a breakthrough study that redefines how we view the heart of our galaxy, astronomers have captured the first-ever direct ...
After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...
The Milky Way’s galactic center (inset) is home to strange, death-defying stars that manage to survive close encounters with our galaxy’s supermassive black hole. New research reveals the unintended ...
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 ...
We have found hot wind blasting out from our galaxy’s supermassive black hole for the first time, which could help us understand its mysterious inactivity. Compared to many other supermassive black ...