Feb 18, 2025 · The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party, complete with a disco ball-style light show. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astrophysicists has gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the “void” that lurks in the middle of our galaxy.

Mar 27, 2024 · That’s why we call them black holes. The supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center has the mass of 4 million suns. But it contains all this mass in the space of only about 8 suns...

Aug 29, 2013 · The center of the Milky Way galaxy, with the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), located in the middle, is revealed in these images. As described in our press release, astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to take a major step in understanding why material around Sgr A* is extraordinarily faint in X-rays.

Mar 5, 2025 · The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

Mar 6, 2025 · Astronomers have found what appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest satellite galaxy to our own. To make this discovery, researchers traced the paths of 21 stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way using data from the European Space ...

Feb 18, 2025 · Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

1 day ago · —James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video) — Tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang may be prime dark matter suspects.

Feb 18, 2025 · The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party — and it is weird, wild and wonderful. Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists has gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the void that lurks in middle of our galaxy.

1 day ago · The heart of the Milky Way is located just 26,000 light-years away, but the high density of stars and the vast, thick interstellar clouds of gas and dust obscure our view of the galactic center. This makes it difficult not only to study the validity of this universal law of star formation, but also to understand the effect of the black hole’s ...

Feb 18, 2025 · For decades, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, has been a source of mystery for astronomers. While black holes are often thought of as silent cosmic voids, recent observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have painted a very different picture—one of constant activity, flares,