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 ...

“The flare observed at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy with JWST was so well-monitored that we are not just able to infer the properties of the radiation, but we can learn something about the ...

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image of a black ... the Milky Way, which could shed light on the formation of our galaxy.

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

A long-standing mystery about a strange cluster of stars in our galaxy may have finally ... including our Milky Way. Intermediate-mass black holes have masses ranging between hundreds to hundreds ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. It’s about 22 million miles across and a powerful source of radio waves. It was first discovered in 1974.

This study opens important questions in cosmology, particularly on the amount of dark matter contained in our galaxy. The total mass of the Milky Way is estimated to be only two hundred billion ...

We’re just coming up on August’s “Milky Way” window, arguably the best 10 days of the year for viewing our galaxy. So clear your diary this weekend and get outside to as dark a site as ...

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