Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

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

AI Reveals Milky Way’s Black Hole Spins Near Top Speed. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 15, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 06 / 250614121952.htm. Morgridge Institute for Research.

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show ...

He found a Milky Way black hole 50 years ago, and finally got to see it; Yusef-Zadeh and team are trying to help get to the bottom of that. They've likened the new observations to solar flares, ...

An artist’s illustration depicts the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas and dust.

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. They found the ...