Has the decades-long mystery behind the strange star movements in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s largest star cluster, finally been solved? Omega Centauri has been studied to determine if its high ...

Credit: ESO/F. Peißker et al., S. Guisard. Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery near Sagittarius A*, the ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion ...

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

For an instant of cosmic time you are the center of the universe, wondering where everybody is going and why, as trillions of ...

A binary star system is orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky Way star cluster.

At the bottom of the chart are the fundamental particles—quarks, bosons (eg Higgs, w +, w -, z ), protons, neutrons, ...

Astronomers have discovered a first: a binary star system in the vicinity of Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central ...

Using observations from ESO's Very Large Telescope, the team estimates that the two stars are quite young, maybe around 2.7 ...

Scientists have discovered a binary star system, D9, orbiting Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole.

There could be planets around the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy – and we may be ready to find them, ...