Supermassive black holes are famous for pulling gas, dust, and even stars toward them. But these giant objects do not simply ...

Villanova astrophysicist Becka Phillipson wondered what a black hole might sound like. She found an answer by translating ...

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

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

A new study suggests that the young stars orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole may have a surprisingly ordinary origin ...

NASA’s Chandra archive has yielded 84 previously unknown objects that every standard catalog missed because pipelines never ...

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole. The few that don't have had theirs ejected during a galactic collision.

Supermassive black holes discovered by eROSITA have grown to more than ten times their expected mass relative to their host ...

A star called S301 passes Sagittarius A* at 8% of light speed, near enough that the black hole's spin should bend its orbit.

The newfound star S301 orbits the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole so closely that its view of the heavens gets twisted ...

Three real-data gravitational-wave searches on public LIGO/Virgo strain: subsolar/primordial-black-hole mergers (with a real matched-filter benchmark), post-merger echoes, and ringdown spectroscopy ...