This week’s binocular object is the center of the Milky Way. You’ll find it from a dark site by generally looking toward the constellations Scorpius and Sagittarius. I stress “dark site.” ...

Supermassive black holes, celestial objects with masses greater than a million times that of the Sun, remain one of the ...

Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or, rather, the magnetic field around its shadow.

The Milky Way’s outer reaches are coming into view thanks to the JWST. Astronomers pointed the powerful space telescope to a ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers ...

Now, the powerful space telescope has pushed it to the edge closer to home in our very own galaxy, the Milky Way. A team of ...

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially ...

An artist's illustration of the longest black hole jet system ever observed. Nicknamed Porphyrion after a mythological Greek ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes is traversing through the ...

The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy may already be colliding after it was discovered that galaxies may have gas halos far ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by the origins of supermassive black holes—enormous objects found at the center of most ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...