Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

The careening star blasted through the galactic filament, known as "the Snake," at a zippy 1–2 million miles per hour.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

A remarkable new study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered shocking details about a star-forming region ...

They used two radio telescopes in West Virginia to zoom in on Sagittarius A. Over two days in February 1974, Balick and Brown observed the galactic center at a high enough resolution to see a ...

The star passes within 17 light-hours of a compact radio source known as Sagittarius A, pegged as the galactic center, and completes an oval orbit around the super hot spot every 15.2 years.

Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong ...