Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be ...

Learn how ALMA gives astrophysics a front row seat to dynamic forces that shape the galaxy, called space tornadoes.