Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially explaining the cosmic monster's unusual spin.

This black hole is estimated to weigh around 600,000 solar masses, significantly smaller than the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, which weighs about 4.3 ...

The Milky Way's central black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), has been "leaking" or emitting jet-like superheated beams for several thousand years. In a composite image captured with the ...

Because the Milky Way is disk-shaped, astronomers had to look through clouds of dust and debris to peer at the dense heart of our galaxy where the supermassive black hole was thought to lie.

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Sagittarius A is this supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. And in 2022, scientists gave us the first-ever look at that black hole.

The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is referred to as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, which is pronounced “sadge-ay-star.” It is more than a thousand times smaller than the black hole in ...

The Milky Way's supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is over 4 million times more massive than our sun. Its strong gravitational pull draws nearby stars and gas clouds into ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

LRT: Here are stars orbiting the 4 million solar mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way. This isn’t a simulation, it’s 21 years of observations. S0-2 hits a max speed of ~3% the speed ...

The team suggests the bubbles—named the eRosita bubbles after the telescope that found them in 2020—are the result of powerful jet activity launched by the Milky Way's supermassive black hole ...

For the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, it’s glow time. Known as Sagittarius A*, the behemoth at the center of the galaxy dazzled astronomers in 2019 with a light show more brilliant than ...