Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our galaxy's "black hole heart." Credit: ESO ...

Back in 1971, a couple of British astronomers predicted the existence of a black hole at the center of our galaxy. And in 1974, other astronomers found it, naming it Sagittarius A*. Since then, ...

Recently, astronomers focused on a galaxy 270 million light years away, which hosts a supermassive black hole known as 1ES 1927+654. The black hole, researchers have now observed, has been ...

This research changes things. It shows that the presence of a black hole does not generate HVSs alone; the motion of the galaxy also contributes. Future studies of HVSs need to consider galactic ...

In the case of those first detections, the signal was produced by pairs of black holes within our galaxy that had been orbiting one another and eventually merged. Although gravity holds us down on ...

These black holes have masses ranging from millions to billions of times that of the sun. The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* located at the center of the Milky Way galaxy has a mass of ...

Supermassive black holes are referred to as active galactic nuclei (AGN) when they are in the center of a galaxy and active. The more they consume, the brighter they are. Most galaxies have ...

"So if we didn’t have a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy, there might be many more stars in the sky. That’s just one example of how black holes can influence a galaxy’s evolution.