S301 passes close to Sagittarius A*—so close that its orbit could reveal how the black hole’s rotation warps the spacetime ...

Eight-point-seven years is the number that makes S301 unusually valuable. That is how long the faint star takes to circle ...

Councils across the UK are making cuts of £3bn this financial year, despite recent funding reforms.

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the most promising candidate yet for a black hole star, lurking 660 million ...

The new object discovered by astronomers may explain the mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope.

A space mystery, sparked by telescope readings, has led astronomers to identify an all-new type of star — black hole stars.

At the center of the Milky Way, an otherwise ordinary star is moving at an extraordinary speed. Every 8.7 years, the faint ...

Discover the Milky Way’s fastest star orbiting the central black hole at 25,000 km/s, offering new insights into space-time ...

It was discovered during the JWST “Mirage or Miracle” (MoM) survey of galaxies in the early universe. Consequently, it was ...

Rohan Naidu is an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Hawaii, and one of the lead researchers behind the ...

When a massive compact object passes between us and a distant star, its gravity acts like a lens, briefly magnifying the star ...