The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or, rather, the magnetic field around its shadow.

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...

and the magnetic fields of Jupiter and the sun are more powerful than Earth's. Even the entire Milky Way galaxy has its own magnetic field. It's about a million times weaker than Earth's ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious pulses of energy that can last from a fraction of a millisecond to about three ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

Twenty years ago today a tiny neutron star reached across the Milky Way to land a blow on ... able to physically compress our planet’s magnetic field, overload some satellites and even partially ...