And Scientists Have No Explanation For It The vast space beyond our planet’s wall was rightly known as the final frontier, ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

Scientists observed constant flares from the Milky Way's black hole, revealing unpredictable and intense activity.

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...

At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...

The observations detailed the extreme environment in the immediate vicinity of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* is ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party -- and it is weird, wild and wonderful. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a Northwestern ...