Supermassive black holes are mysterious bodies. Now a new preprint study is shedding light on Sagittarius A* by studying what ...
Until recently, black holes seemed to come in only two sizes: either as a single heavy collapsed sun, or else weighing the same as millions or even billions of stars. Small or large. Only in 2014 did ...
A worldwide network of scientists known as the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has released the first ever image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. British journalist ...
Chris Impey receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Sagittarius A* sits at the the center of our Milky Way galaxy, in the direction of the Sagittarius constellation. For decades, ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black ...
The galactic center harbors Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), a supermassive black hole whose existence was inferred from the unusual orbits of nearby stars before its 2022 imaging by the Event Horizon ...