The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

What Is Sagittarius A*? Sagittarius A* is a supermassive black hole located in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy, located about 26,000 light years from Earth, according to NASA. Astronomers ...

Sagittarius C lies about 200 light-years from the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s core. This black hole has a mass roughly four million times greater than the sun.

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before seen.

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...

Regardless of the Milky Way’s ultimate celestial fate, discovering and studying unique neighboring galaxies like J23453268−0449256 allows astronomers to learn more about our surprising ...