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

Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on ...

Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or, rather, the magnetic field around its shadow.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Somewhere in between, humans realized the universe is much larger than our Milky Way — that the spiral nebulas ... "Hubble was so excited about this image that he wrote 'VAR!' on the black and white ...

Milky Way—The ... by fusion. A white dwarf has a mass comparable to that of the sun but is no larger than the Earth. Asteroid 951 Gaspra Galaxies possibly containing black holes, which can ...

This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Nearly every large galaxy ...