The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...

There are millions of galaxies in the universe, and while astronomers have cataloged many, some remain relatively unknown to ...

Astrophysicists at UCLA suggest decaying dark matter may drive processes leading to the formation supermassive black holes.

DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...

Astronomy lovers in America will be treated to a great show in this month. In the early morning of March 14, a total lunar ...

Scientists have used the wobble of the Milky Way and what are known as "cosmic lighthouses" to shine a light on the mystery ...

Scientists may have detected dark matter’s first signal through ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. If true, it could challenge ...

When it starts taking scientific data in 2028, the Square Kilometre Array Observatory promises to be the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. But as Sarah Wild discovers, its ...

The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, the ...