It orbits about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, on the Orion Spur that shoots off from the Sagittarius spiral arm. The stars are not as tightly packed in our region of the Milky ...

It is no surprise that such a massive object attracts nearby stars. Indeed, astrophysicists have long observed stars orbiting with periods ranging from 10 years to 166 years. These are collectively ...

This analysis showed that S0-6 does indeed fly very close to the Milky Way's big black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (pronounced 'Sagittarius A Star'). It orbits within 0.04 light years of the ...

The star S4716 orbits the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, coming as close to it as 9.2 billion miles. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

In the case of Sagittarius A*, astronomers observed the orbits of S2 and its stellar companions and found that they must be circling around a massive object that could only be a black hole.

By analyzing the data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, Chinese astronomers have investigated a globular cluster known as ...

The mass of Sagittarius A* is less than one one-thousandth of M87’s, so its appearance changes about 1,000 times faster, as matter moves in tighter, quicker orbits around the black hole.

In 2019, scientists achieved a great goal of astrophysics when they published the first-ever image of a black hole. By coordinating radio telescopes around the world to create, in effect, one ...

Stars within the center of our home galaxy are constantly threatened by collision, as they orbit around the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A (Sgr A). How close the stars are to Sgr A ...

As it orbits the Milky Way, Sagittarius is pulled in tighter due to the galaxy's gravitational force, and repeatedly smashes into the disk of stars, gas and dust that surrounds the Milky Way.

Astronomers from Japan's Miyagi University of Education spent almost a decade scrutinizing one star near the center of the galaxy, and they've concluded that S0-6 isn't from around these parts.