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.

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.

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 ...

Supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* is spinning nearly as fast as it can, dragging the very fabric of space-time with it and shaping the heart of the Milky Way.

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 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 ...

Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak. This supermassive black hole looks like it still has the vestiges of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years. NASA's Hubble Space ...

The EHT managed to image the black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*, as well as the black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy M87, M87* — marking the first two ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way may look more like a football than a circle, new research suggests. The new study, which appears in Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight ...

The proximity of the Milky Way's galactic center — a mere 24,000 light-years away — provides a unique laboratory for addressing issues in the fundamental physics of supermassive black holes.

Astronomers have discovered that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may have sprung a leak. This means Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) at the heart of the Milky Way may not be as much ...