NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Silverman, Leah. "Astronomers Just Created The Most Detailed 3D-Map Of Our Galaxy Yet." AllThatsInteresting.com, November 14, ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

New research suggests that dark matter may be the key to uncovering the mysteries of the Milky Way. The scientific team led ...

Observations show the disk of our galaxy is not flat but warped and waving. Astronomers are still working out the reasons why ...

Looking for an alternative to fireworks? Stargazers can catch a cosmic light show this Independence Day when the Milky Way appears in the night sky. The center of our home galaxy, which is composed of ...

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...

What does the Milky Way look like? Sometimes, the billions of stars comprising our home galaxy appear especially vibrant during “Milky Way season” as the band arcs across the night sky. The reason has ...

TL;DR: The James Webb Space Telescope observed Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, revealing flares from its accretion disk. The world's most powerful space ...

The true scale of the Milky Way Galaxy — and, indeed, the universe as a whole — became dramatically clearer in the 1920s. That’s when a new generation of large telescopes coupled with photography ...