a team of astronomers has discovered a binary star system orbiting the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way. This groundbreaking discovery, announced in Nature ...
As far as supermassive black holes go, the one at the center of the Milky Way is relatively sedate. But, even in its supposed quiescent state, Sagittarius A* is prone to the occasional belch or ...
Scientists have been actively observing Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*)—a supermassive black hole roughly 4 million times the mass of the sun— since the early 1990s. Sgr A* regularly exhibits flares ...
As their name implies, the entities are enormous (Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our Milky Way is 4.3 million times bigger than the sun.) They're also scarily destructive and ...
particularly supermassive black holes like Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has played a crucial role in this research, providing ...