Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, confirming a hypothesis made by happenstance nearly a century ago ...

Astronomers have discovered the first-ever binary star system, D9, orbiting the Milky Way's central black hole, Sagittarius A ...

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from ...

Astrophysicists are marveling at the latest celestial discovery made near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black ...

One of them has yielded the first compelling evidence of a binary star system — called D9 — orbiting the galactic center. This pair of stars orbit each other about once a year. Based on the ...