Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

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

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...

University of Arizona astronomers have now produced the highest resolution direct images ever taken of a supermassive black ...

Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...

The intrepid mapping mission has collected more than three trillion observations that'll change the way we see our neck of ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...