Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory is the agency's flagship mission for X-ray astronomy. On Sept. 5, 2001, NASA announced that ...

Recently, there has been big news in the field of astronomy! Scientists have detected a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Once this news broke, many people began to worry: ...

Recently, the astronomical community celebrated a groundbreaking discovery—scientists have observed a supermassive black hole ...

Discover 9 breathtaking Milky Way images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the galaxy’s stunning structure ...

Scientists ultimately settled on a feeding black hole at the heart of a far-distant galaxy as the most likely engine for 3C ...

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...

Using a powerful combination of the Subaru Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

The new black hole is 10,000 times heavier than the black hole at centre of our Milky Way galaxy.