Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

According to the team's modeling and calculations with the added pulsar data, the motions of the stars in the center of Omega ...

From the moment it unfurled its distinctive hexagonal mirrors in early 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has treated the ...

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

Astronomers have discovered a binary star system near the Milky Way's black hole, Sagittarius A*, suggesting planets may also ...

The team compared two types of galaxies: those harboring X-ray-emitting black holes and those without. Using Webb’s ...

"According to general relativity, everything can only go inside [a black hole] and nothing can ever come out," said Heino ...

NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be "tipped over," rotating in an ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown object in space.

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, ...

But the newfound duo, dubbed D9, suggests that some stellar pairs can, in fact, hang on near a black hole, if only for a short while. Astronomers estimate the stars are about 2.7 million years old ...