At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from ...

Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give up secrets. The initial detection of its supermassive black hole (SMBH) decades ago posed as many riddles as it solved ...

and might merge into a single star within 1m years due to the strong gravitational force of Sagittarius A – the supermassive blackhole at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy – researchers said ...

It has a mass around three million times the mass of the Sun and is the largest molecular cloud of its type near the centre ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

youthful stars that have been observed zipping around the Milky Way's center at hypervelocities, the new study suggests. Moreover, because young stars are often accompanied by planets, this ...

An international study has discovered a binary star orbiting near a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. This is the first time a binary star has been found near a supermassive ...

A laser aims at the centre of our galaxy, heart of the brightest part of the Milky Way. G. Hdepohl/ESO At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*.

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be ... stars moving near the centre of Omega Centauri ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.

The stellar pairing in question orbits the cosmic titan at the heart of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. The binary stars, designated D9, were found in data collected by the Very Large Telescope ...