The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic home gives us exclusive insight into its components, but it also hinders our ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

Strange, ultraheavy stars that are rich in barium grow massive by cannibalizing their companions, scientists discover after ...

For astronomers, finding a new black hole orbiting an aged red dwarf star is an exciting find in itself, but when that black hole seems to be a "missing link" stellar-mass black hole, you can crank ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot plasma are the largest ever spotted — about as long as 140 Milky ...

One of the observations is of supernova remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

The Milky Way also has a supermassive black hole at its core: Sagittarius A* (pronounced "A-star"). The Milky Way above the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, above the European Southern ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.