The supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A* lies in the middle of the Milky Way. Observations of S2 and other stars also helped astronomers calculate the extraordinary size and mass of ...
Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...
Astronomers have detected a binary star system orbiting Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO / S. Guisard Just on the outskirts of a supermassive black hole ...
The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black hole. "A big question has been, if there is so much dense gas and ...