The discovery, which relied on data from the ... was found in a dense stellar cluster orbiting Sagittarius A*, which has an estimated mass millions of times that of our sun. The researchers ...

The simulation results showed that a merger with a highly inclined orbital configuration could reproduce Sagittarius A*’s current characteristics. This discovery not only helps explain the ...

The discovery could lead to the finding of more ... vicinity of the black hole at the center of the galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, the paper states. In the 1930s, American engineer Karl Jansky ...

The discovery helps us understand how stars survive in environments with extreme gravity, and could pave the way for the detection of planets close to Sagittarius A*. An international team of ...

This discovery raises the risk that the Milky Way's central black hole—Sagittarius A*—might end up producing similar jets in the future, with the cosmic-, gamma- and X-rays from such having ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The unexpected discovery came via observations of ...

That led to an unexpected discovery: many of these stars do not trace back to Sagittarius A* at all. Instead, their trajectories suggest they came from the Large Magellanic Cloud. “We find that half ...

While the discovery of this vent helps complete the ... In the Milky Way, that engine is known as Sagittarius A* and it’s the ultra-massive object—around 4.3 million times the mass of our ...

Astronomers have located dozens of black holes across a range of mass sizes since the discovery of Cygnus X-1 in 1964. Sagittarius A*, for example, lays within the center of the surrounding Milky ...

Several young stars found in close proximity to Sagittarius A* have disproved this assumption. The discovery of the young binary star now shows that even stellar pairs have the potential to form ...