"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have successfully discovered 53 new quasars powered by supermassive black holes ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove the assumption that the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way devours nearby dust objects ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...