Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is home to multiple wonders. There is our biggest star, VY Canis Majoris, the column-like structures known as the Pillars of Creation, and, in the middle of it all, a ...

An invisible monster lurks beyond the stars of the constellation Sagittarius near the border with Scorpius: a supermassive black hole, designated as Sagittarius A* (pronounced “Sagittarius A-star”), ...

Astronomers have traced a chain of enigmatic gas clouds near Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole, to a massive contact binary star system known as IRS 16SW. Observations and simulations ...

New observations and simulations by a team of researchers led by MPE reveal that a massive binary star near our galaxy's ...

Astronomers have discovered evidence for thousands of black holes located near the center of our Milky Way galaxy using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This black hole bounty consists of ...

In 2014, a strange cloudy object called G2 made a close approach to Sagittarius A*, (Sag A*) the supermassive black hole at ...

Astronomers have found evidence for a new bounty of black holes at the center of the Milky Way. These are stellar-mass black holes that typically weigh between five to 30 times the mass of the Sun.

Lead author Valentina Crespi explained that this dense dark matter core could bend light so strongly that it creates a dark ...

Astronomers have traced a chain of mysterious gas clouds near Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole, back to a massive contact binary star system called IRS 16SW. Hydrodynamical ...