The Milky Way's black hole is hiding an explosive past, evidence suggests

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

Milky Way's massive black hole spaghettified filament of gas

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

A few hundred years ago: Trace of an eruption of the black hole Sgr A*

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way apparently flared up dramatically relatively recently. An echo of ...
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Milky Way's central black hole may have scarfed down another black hole

A near-infrared view of the stars near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. - ESO / S. Gillessen et al. Astronomers suspect the giant black hole at the heart of the Milky Way may have collided with ...

Supermassive black hole on a 'collision course' with the Milky Way

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...
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Astronomers Creep Up to the Edge of the Milky Way’s Black Hole

Astronomers already knew that the Milky Way hosts a central black hole, weighing some four million suns. From Earth, this black hole is a dense, tiny thing in the constellation Sagittarius, only as ...
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See 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The world’s first image of the chaotic ...
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Milky Way’s central black hole spins at nearly light speed, study finds

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...
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Is It the Eye of Sauron? No, It's a Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

The Sgr A* black hole, which, when you look into it, looks also into you (image courtesy Event Horizon Telescope collaboration) “The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat's, ...

Do all stars exist in galaxies?

Do all stars exist in galaxies, or do some exist in intergalactic space?Thomas GriffilthAtlantic City, New Jersey Nearly all ...
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The Largest Black Hole Jet Ever Discovered Is Three Times Bigger Than The Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole jet that is three times bigger than the Milky Way. The jet is known as Quasar J1601+3102, and it was first spotted by astronomers using the Low ...
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Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way's huge black hole

Astronomers have unveiled the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Nearly all galaxies, including our own, are believed to have these ...