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Weeks after astronomers released a historic image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, a separate study showed how it is probing the evolution of black holes in dwarf galaxies.A new analysis of dwarf galaxy…

The Webb Telescope is closer to starting its mission of science …A historic look at the center of our galaxy …And the Crew-3 astronauts reflect on their mission … a few of the stories to tell you about – This Week at <span…

Artist’s impression of the surroundings of a supermassive black hole at the centre of an active galaxy. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser During…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, with astronomers calling it a “gentle giant” on a near-starvation diet.…

What’s going on with our galaxy?Astronomers have long suspected that 26,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius, lurking behind the clouds of dust and gas that shroud the center of the Milky Way, there is a massive black…

At 2.26pm on 6 January last year, Donald Trump picked up a White House phone and placed a call to Mike Lee, the Republican senator from Utah. The communication came at a very significant moment.Thirty-seven minutes earlier, a riot had…

What happens when the universe gets indigestion? Massive bubbles form at the middle of the Milky Way, and then astronomers and scientists get to debate what it all means. They've been doing exactly that when, in 2020, the X-ray…

One thousand light-years away is pretty close for a black hole. When researchers discovered a black hole at that distance in 2019, it caught the attention of other astronomers and other interested people. It was the first black…

Astronomers who thought they had discovered a black hole on our cosmic doorstep have said they were mistaken, instead revealing they have found a two-star system involving a stellar “vampire”.The system, known as HR 6819 in the…

Black holes could make a strong case for being the most fascinating phenomena in the whole Universe, and scientists are constantly discovering more about the way that they work and behave – including how they're created in the first…