Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...
Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Scientists are observing the behavior of a supermassive black hole that is ...
There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...
The object at the Milky Way’s center has long been treated as a settled case: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* weighing about four million Suns and anchoring the galaxy’s structure. Now ...
Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...
Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.
There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?
At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million individual X-ray light detections collected through 2021. The latest examples from ...