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Sagittarius A*
At the center of the Milky Way galaxy, some 26,000 light-years away, lies a supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A*. With a mass of roughly 4 million Suns, this colossal cosmic object is a gr…
An illustration of how a black hole may appear. Researchers hope to present the first-ever image of a black hole later this winter. (Photo: NASA /Alain Riazuelo) At the center of our Milky Way galaxy…
Black holes don't just sit there munching away constantly on the space around them. Eventually they run out of nearby matter and go quiet, laying in wait until a stray bit of gas passes by. Then …
The gigantic structure of 2.3 light-years in length near a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A * baffles astronomers. It turns out that at the center of our galaxy, at around 26,000 light ye…
Black holes are some of the most incredible objects in the Universe. There are places where so much mass has gathered in such a tiny volume that the individual matter particles cannot remain as they …
Three space telescopes have detected an increase in the frequency of X-flares eruptions of a giant black hole located at the center of our galaxy. After a new long-term monitoring process, scientists…
