Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...
Imagine a jet of energy so powerful that it makes even Star Wars’ Death Star look tiny. That’s reportedly what astronomers ...
Astronomers have continued to monitor it ever since. Far from fading again, the TDE has grown 50 times brighter, and that brightness continues to increase. The black hole’s energy emission might not ...
In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky ...
Physicists have not yet watched a black hole literally blow itself apart, but they are closing in on the conditions where ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected hundreds of mysterious Little Red Dots in the early universe. New research ...
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...
The canonical image of a supermassive spacetime abyss anchored at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is challenged by ...
What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers trigger active galactic nuclei (AGN), luminou ...