Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...

A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...

An elongated object near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known only as ‘X7,’ has piqued the curiosity of scientists for 20 years. A new study offers a potential explanation ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals how black holes sustain themselves by cooling surrounding gas and creating a self-feeding cycle. Discover the role of jets, gas filaments, and the latest ...

James Webb notices three tiny dots, but NASA cannot explain them. These dots are red and scientists have discovered more ...

The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...

A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

Exoplanets have captured the imagination of the public and scientists alike and as the search continues for more, researchers ...

Plasma jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654 provide new insights into jet formation.

Black holes are interesting and fascinating objects in the universe. They are highly dense areas of space where gravity is so ...

A new discovery has unveiled the origin of a strange whitish-grey patch seen with the northern lights. This phenomenon, now ...