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

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

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 ...

UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first ...

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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 ...