A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside Sagittarius C, blasting out powerful jets of gas as they develop. They also ...

Until now, all the black holes found in the Milky Way galaxy were accompanied by a partner star. Black holes are hard to detect without a companion star because they don't emit light. But Mr Sahu ...

Discovering the Milky Way’s black hole has helped cement the idea that the center of nearly every large galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole. But despite mounting evidence for black holes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields affect star formation at the chaotic center of the Milky Way.

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...

Point sources such as the black hole at the center of the galaxy or cosmic ray sources like supernovas (exploding stars) cannot easily explain this. But a smoothly distributed dark matter halo can.

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2024 — Researchers have discovered compelling evidence suggesting that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is likely the result ...

The lone black hole without a companion star is located 5,000 light-years away. A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole that has no star orbiting it in the Milky Way ...

Supermassive black holes are found at the center of massive galaxies like our own Milky Way. These ginormous cosmic beasts ...