Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...

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

(NewsNation) — A team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way galaxy that could shed light on the formation of black holes. The object could be an actual black hole, or it ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and follow steady orbits.

Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

We have found hot wind blasting out from our galaxy’s supermassive black hole for the first time, which could help us understand its mysterious inactivity. Compared to many other supermassive black ...

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, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...