Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...
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 ...
Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...
Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...
A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...
NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...
Issues delivered straight to your door "I expect Gaia's best results are still to come." ...
Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...
Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...
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 ...