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Most likely all of you know about Sagittarius A* , the supermassive black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. It's har...

If you're the kind of person who likes having your mind blown by superlatives, astrophysics is the science for you. I ran into two reall...

One of the things that always blows my mind about astronomy is how good we've gotten at using indirect evidence to figure out what's...

After Monday's post, about the bizarre hypergiant star Stephenson 2-18, a reader commented, "If you think that's weird, look up...

Seems like I've featured a lot of research about astrophysics here at Skeptophilia  lately, and that's not only because I'm real...

At the center of our seemingly tranquil galaxy, there's a black hole massive enough that it significantly warps spacetime, swallows any...

I think part of my enjoyment of science is that I love a good mystery. The universe is endlessly fascinating and also endlessly complicate...