New star system discovered orbiting our Milky Way galaxy

A team of astronomers have made an astonishing discovery -- UMa3/U1 -- the faintest star system ever observed orbiting ... heart of the Milky Way lies a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius ... Read More

European astronomers discover Milky Way's largest stellar-mass black hole: What to know

The European Space Agency announced that it has found the most massive stellar-mass black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way. Read More

Faintest known star system orbiting the Milky Way discovered

A team of astronomers led by the University of Victoria and Yale University has detected an ancient star system ... faintest and lowest-mass Milky Way satellite ever discovered, and possibly ... Read More

Humongous stellar-mass black hole is the biggest ever found in Milky Way

Calçada SHARE Scientists have discovered an enormous stellar-mass black hole in our Milky Way galaxy that’s roughly 33 times ... occurring on the companion star orbiting the black hole. Read More

Astronomers Discover Most Massive Stellar Black Hole in the Milky Way

How big is the biggest black hole? This is what a recent study submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics hopes to address as a team of more than 100 internat | Space ... Read More

Stunning image shows the magnetic fields of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole

This one shows the magnetic fields twirling around the supermassive ... black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of our Milky Way black ... Read More

Black Holes News

Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way's Central Black Hole ... ever found. The merging of two supermassive black holes is a ... Webb Finds Evidence for ... Read More

The faintest star system orbiting our Milky Way may be dominated by dark matter

A bizarre system of stars that is either an ancient cluster or the most dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy ever found is enticing astronomers who hope it could help explain how our Milky Way ... Read More

Astronomers uncover the heaviest black hole in our galaxy and it’s in our cosmic backyard

The team discovered Gaia BH3 during a review of the data that the European Space Agency’s Gaia ... the star orbiting the now recorded holder for the heaviest black hole in the Milky Way was ... Read More

Astronomers detect Milky Way's second-largest known black hole

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered a black hole with a mass about 33 times greater than that of our sun, the biggest one known in the Milky Way aside from the supermassive black ... Read More

Humongous stellar-mass black hole is the biggest ever found in Milky Way

Scientists have discovered an enormous stellar-mass black hole in our Milky Way ... star orbiting the black hole. Gaia-BH3 is 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila and is Earth’s ... Read More