Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Astronomers have discovered nearly 100 examples of massive black holes shredding and devouring stars, almost all of them where you'd expect to find ...

which has one central black hole — called SagA* because of its location within the constellation Sagittarius — weighing in at a puny 4 million solar masses. Some of the largest galaxies have ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as a tidal disruption event ...

Among the countless starry expanse of our galaxy, a lone black hole had been silently gliding ... dark object that was wandering in the Sagittarius constellation. At the time, the discovery ...

Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Dec. 17, 2024 — An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive ...

Spoiler warning: Below there will be information about today's New York Times Strands puzzle.

Astronomers have spent years investigating a puzzling object in our galaxy’s constellation Sagittarius ... Scientists point out that the black hole’s distance is around 5,000 light years from Earth.

Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.