Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...

The observations detailed the extreme environment in the immediate vicinity of Sagittarius A* (pronounced A-star), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Sagittarius A* is about ...

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Space scientists say the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having "a party." A team of astrophysicists has gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the “void ...

At the core of the Milky Way, 26,000 light-years from Earth, Sagittarius A* flickers and flares in an ongoing celestial performance. Unlike the serene darkness often associated with black holes, this ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal to billions of suns and has an accretion disk made up of gas and dust surrounding it.

A curious connection between an ancient supernova and virus diversification in one of Earth's biggest lakes means that crazy cosmic events may have had more influence on our planet than we thought ...

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. They found the ...

WASHINGTON: NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, observing a ...