What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

Previous observations of stars whipping around an unseen mass—especially a bright star called S2—have pointed to an object ...

The object at the Milky Way’s center has long been treated as a settled case: a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

According to their model, this dark matter would naturally form a two-part structure: an extremely dense central core ...

Saul Hernandez, a New Mexico State University senior studying physics and linguistics with a minor in astronomy, has turned ...

For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...

At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...

The canonical image of a supermassive spacetime abyss anchored at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, is challenged by ...