While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

In Sagittarius C's brightest cluster, the researchers confirmed the tentative finding from the Atacama Large Millimeter ... jets from young stars impacts the surrounding gas cloud.

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud ... of these stars originate from our own galaxy’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*.

The Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region, shines bright with new stars and protostars in this NASA image. A protostar, HH 34, is captured in this image, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that ...