"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

could our galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) also blow its top? And if so, what would this mean for life in the Milky Way? While larger jets have been observed in the past ...

An illustration shows a "cosmic tornado" flowing around Sgr A,* the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Astronomers have discovered "space ...

While large galaxies host central supermassive black holes (SMBH ... high speeds after an encounter with the Milky Way’s own central black hole, Sagittarius A*. (Such speedy stars were one ...

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

Astronomers studying a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy similar to our Milky Way may have just witnessed how ...