Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

A newly published study in The Astrophysical Journal has revealed the presence of a previously undetected supermassive black ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...

Astronomers think there could be as many as 100 million black holes in our galaxy, most with a similar mass to our Sun, but ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 billion years ago.

This was a sign that the galaxy's sleeping black hole was waking from its slumber, according to the study published in the ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...