In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...

Black holes may leak more energy to their surroundings than previously suspected — and the faster these voids spin, the more ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

Night sky tonight! "Flares are expected to happen in essentially all supermassive black holes, but our black hole is unique." ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The Large Magellanic Cloud may collide with the Milky Way in 2.4 ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

Between spotting galaxies that shouldn't exist, capturing the interstellar medium with unprecedented clarity, and identifying ...