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An artist's concept shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*

NASA's Webb telescope observes violence around Milky Way's central black hole

Sagittarius A*, located about 26,000 light-years from Earth, is approximately four million times more massive than the Sun. Illustration: Catmando.

Twin stars orbit Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY of Jerusalem’s mapping of gravitational ‘basins of attraction.’

Jerusalem scientists help shed light on large-scale cosmic structures

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole.

Israeli, international astronomers detect Milky Way's second-largest known black hole

By REUTERS

This image shows the polarised view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines overlaid on this image mark the orientation of polarisation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole.

Twisted magnetic field observed around Milky Way's central black hole

By REUTERS

This artist's illustration shows a cross-section of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, warping spacetime to look like a football.

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole makes spacetime look like a football - study

An artist’s composition of the Milky Way seen through a neutrino lens (blue).

For first time, scientists use neutrinos to create 'ghostly' map of Milky Way

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view

Milky Way may not be the shape we thought - study

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Radio telescopes, which are used to find radio broadcasts from space (Illustrative).

Aliens may be looking for Earth but can't find us - study

This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy 3C 297, which was part of a large survey of galaxies. The galaxies in the pictures look close on a 2D image, but in reality they're in completely different parts of space.

Why is this galaxy all alone? It absorbed all its neighbors - study

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view

NASA's James Webb finds 6 huge galaxies that shouldn't exist - study

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view

Astronomers document a not-so-super supernova in the Milky Way

By REUTERS

This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years. In this image, representing Earth's night sky in 3.75 billion years, Andromeda (left) fills the field of view

Scientists discover new feature that makes the Milky Way unique

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF