Journey to the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. Scientists using data from Chandra and the Very Large Array have determined ...

Many things scattered throughout the Milky Way flicker, glow, and pulse in idiosyncratic ways. From the staccato static of a ...

Models say a few black holes may lurk within 50 light-years of the Sun. A new study used Gaia data and radio and infrared ...

Scientific estimates show that there should be between about 100 million and 1 billion stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way. But they aren't easy to locate. They're not like supermassive black ...

James Webb detected heavy elements in gas near Sagittarius A*, with a composition similar to that of nearby stars.

What materials comprise the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, also called Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)? This is what a recent study published | Space ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a concentration of heavy metals near the Milky Way's central ...

Recently observed objects could be black holes that grew extremely quickly during an early stage of their lives ...

JWST data show gas near the Milky Way's central black hole holds about 1.8 times the Sun's heavy elements, likely from past ...

Fastest known star S301 reaches about 15,900 miles per second near Sagittarius A*, and its 8.7-year orbit could reveal the ...

Kareem El-Badry, associate professor of astronomy at Caltech, has been selected as one of 20 Packard Fellows for 2026. The ...