Near the center of the Milky Way, a star is racing around Sagittarius A* at speeds reaching 25 000 km/s. Named S301, it is the fastest known star in our galaxy and passes closer to the central black ...

Black holes can suppress star formation, but nine nearby galaxies reveal how their outflows could also help trigger the birth of new stars.

Astronomers analyzed 2,435 galaxies hosting actively feeding black holes using data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...

Astronomers built the James Webb Space Telescope to pick up faint light from the first billion years after the Big Bang, a chaotic era when vast swaths of hydrogen and helium gas gathered into the ...

Powerful jets from supermassive black holes can disturb star-forming gas far beyond a galaxy’s visible edge, leaving a glowing trail hundreds of thousands of light-years long. By keeping this gas hot ...

Rohan Naidu was not hunting for black holes when he found one wearing a star’s disguise. The NASA Hubble Fellow at MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research was combing James Webb ...

Astronomers analyzed a number of barless galaxies and concluded that supermassive black holes are growing imperceptibly ...

A new study suggests that the young stars orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole may have a surprisingly ordinary origin. But the black hole's influence may be what makes their origin look more ...

Things are weird near our galaxy's black hole.

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The 'Little Red Dots' (LRDs) discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in December 2022 are celestial objects that ...