A Milky Way collision with a supermassive black hole might be closer than we thought. Hidden deep in the Large Magellanic ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

Scientists have unlocked the 3D structure of molecular clouds in the Milky Way’s center, using a groundbreaking X-ray technique. These cosmic clouds, vital for star formation, were illuminated by past ...

an international team of scientists made the first-ever detection of a mid-IR flare from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. In simultaneous radio ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...

Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...

A supermassive black hole exists at the core of the Milky Way galaxy, of which the solar system that comprises Earth and the other planets is a part. It is called Sagittarius A*, pronounced ...

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way ... evidence of Sagittarius A*, a black ...

The first fragments of the Milky Way came together soon ... this warping is caused by an ongoing collision with another smaller galaxy – likely the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, which has smashed ...

For many observers, the Milky Way’s prime attraction is the northern galactic bulge from the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud up to the territory of Aquila the Eagle. Northern Hemisphere observers ...

The galactic centre area of the Milky Way in Sagittarius behind the grand old barn near home in ... [+] southern Alberta, on June 30, 2019. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via ...