Using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) MeerKAT telescope, Ian Heywood of the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and his colleagues mapped out broad regions in the centre ...

A fresh cosmic rethink is challenging one of astronomy’s most accepted ideas, as scientists revisit what truly lies at the centre of our galaxy. For decades, the Milky Way’s core has been believed to ...

The Milky may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre, scientists claim. Until now, it has been widely believed that our galaxy contains both a supermassive black hole at its core and a ...

An international team of astronomers on Thursday unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy -- a cosmic body known as Sagittarius A*. The image -- ...

The new data released by the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has revealed the surprise phenomena of ‘starquakes’—massive ...

What’s so special about the centre of our galaxy What the team has been observing for 26 years In May 2018, the star S2 made its closest approach to the galactic centre in 16 years. This star can help ...

The black hole appears to have a vestigial jet dating back thousands of years. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has not captured an image of the jet but has helped find evidence suggesting it is ...

Inside-out growth and stellar migration in the Milky Way: Inside the star-forming disc (within ~12 kpc), abundant cold gas fuels continuous star formation, producing young stars. Beyond this break ...

The Galaxy’s core isn't as densely packed with stars as models suggested, a study finds, aligning it more closely with similar spiral galaxies. Our Galactic home just got a remodel. Peering through ...

The FINANCIAL — The black hole at the centre of our Galaxy not only flares irregularly from day to day but also in the long term. This is revealed by an analysis of 15 years of data by an ...