Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

Viewed from our vantage point in one of the Milky Way's ragged spiral arms and 26,000 light-years from the galactic center, it lies near the borders of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius ...

A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. It’s about 22 million miles across and a powerful source of radio waves. It was first discovered in 1974.

This newest photo showcases a specific portion of space near the center of our galaxy. The region is known as Sagittarius C, and it’s located roughly 300 light-years away from the Milky Way’s ...

The University of Arizona’s Feryal Ozel called the black hole “the gentle giant in the center of our galaxy” while announcing the new image. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A ...

Simulation showing the drastic episodes of star formation produced by the approach and interaction of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy with the Milky Way 6,000, 2,000 and 1,000 billion years ago.

The Milky Way galaxy rising in the sky above ... The densest part of the Milky Way—its center—is in the constellation of Sagittarius. From mid-northern latitudes it’s tricky to really ...

It is called Sagittarius A*, pronounced “Sagittarius ... that it traveled more than 50,000 light-years to the center of the Milky Way galaxy over the course of 10 billion years.

Scientists have spotted a star near the center of the Milky Way that ... float outside the Milky Way, like the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. The most likely theory ...

Does that mean it was harder to create? Yes, it was more complicated. Sagittarius A* is at the center of the Milky Way and Earth is located in one of the galaxy’s arms, a position that obstructs our ...

A team of scientists has discovered that the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning so ... at which the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is spinning, publishing ...