"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Sagitarrius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, has been found to be spinning — and dragging space-time along with it. European Southern Observatory/EHT Collaboration.

Researchers have found that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, is spinning so rapidly that it is altering the fabric of space-time around ...

It's as if the black hole basically hurled it out of the galaxy. Sponsor Message Han and his colleagues recently studied 21 of these hypervelocity stars at the fringes of the Milky Way.

For years, the supermassive black hole in the dark center of the Milky Way galaxy has been theorized about and studied — and finally, it's been captured in an image.

In the case of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, space-time is bending and warping around Sgr. A*, causing the matter around it to take on the shape of a football.

The Milky Way may have had a second black hole at its heart between 10 billion and 10 million years ago—one that acted a bit like a star goalkeeper.. This is the conclusion of a study by ...

The monster black hole in galaxy cluster Abell 85 is roughly the size of our solar system, but packs the mass of 40 billion suns. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

The type of black hole that’s sitting in the center of a galaxy is different. This is a supermassive black hole, or SMBH, and — as its name implies — it’s much heftier.

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...

Sagitarrius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, has been found to be spinning — and dragging space-time along with it. European Southern Observatory/EHT Collaboration.