Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter.

Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster Dec. 9, 2024 — Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars ...

The awesome gravitational forces of Sgr A* have the capacity to tear apart pairs of stars known as stellar binaries ... the presence of the intermediate-mass black hole would have prevented ...

For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.