A new theoretical study suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way could accelerate particles ...

Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying ...

Explore the center of our own galaxy like never before. This stunning animation takes you on a breathtaking trip through the ...

Galactic black holes are cosmic mitochondria, powerhouses of the universe. Most of the energy these supermassive black holes produce comes from the material surrounding them: superheated plasma in ...

The Milky Way galaxy is ablaze with dust in this all-sky map from Planck, a European Space Agency mission. The towers of ...

The 50,000 Light-Year Fermi Bubbles: The 50,000 Light-Year Fermi BubblesSagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of the Milky Way.In Episode 4, we looked at the dark ruler and ...

A bizarre neutrino that crashed into Earth in February 2023 is gaining no shortage of equally bizarre explanations.

The center of the Milky Way galaxy is a chaotic place. In addition to the 4-million-solar-mass black hole known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the region is full of gas, dust, strong magnetic fields and ...

Microblazars — a miniature version of blazars — may be responsible for mysterious ultra-high-energy particles.

Astronomers have found signs that supermassive black holes can affect gas far beyond the visible parts of galaxies. Narrow ...

Astronomers have described IRAS 18293-0941 as the strongest candidate for a microblazar, a predicted class of objects not yet ...

Today, UW-Madison physics professor Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Royal Swedish Academy ...