For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* has been sonified by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: ...

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?

At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

The most recent CSC update adds more than 400,000 unique compact and extended X-ray sources, as well over 1.3 million individual X-ray light detections collected through 2021. The latest examples from ...

A black hole at the centre of a galaxy 665 million light years away is continuing to emit a jet of matter six years after ...