Astronomers have captured images that show powerful winds driven by a supermassive black hole into its surrounding galaxy. The findings may help scientists to understand the effect such outflows have ...

An unusual “break” has been detected in the nearest galactic spiral arm to Earth. Astronomers have never seen anything quite like it, and they’re not entirely sure how it got there. New research ...

For high-energy astrophysicists like Roland Crocker, the center of the galaxy is also the center of the action. Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole that makes our galaxy possible, is an engine ...