The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

U sing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

The Milky Way has millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But does the galaxy have any medium-sized black holes? New research suggests the answer is yes: ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...

In the heart of the Milky Way is a black hole millions of times more massive than our sun, but does that mean we're destined to one day fall in?

This so-called tidal disruption event is the best way to spot these middle-mass black holes. A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. The picture of a ...

The Milky Way may have had a second black hole at its heart between 10 billion and 10 million years ago—one that acted a bit like a star goalkeeper. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers ...