The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

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Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

(Photo by Omar HAJ KADOUR / AFP) ... [+] (Photo by OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images) The densest part of the Milky Way—its center—is in the constellation of Sagittarius. From mid-northern ...

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way, which could shed light on the formation of ...

According to a new study, our Milky Way galaxy may have already begun colliding ... in the galaxy extended 7,800 light years from its center, the gas glowed 100,000 light years into space.

New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...

Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by a self-interacting dark matter subhalo. New research points to a dark matter subhalo as the architect behind the unique ...