A star cluster just outside the Milky Way known as Omega Centauri appears to have a black hole at its center according to new ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Fastest Known Planetary System May Have Been Pushed by Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole ...

Researchers from Japan’s National Astronomical Observatory (NAOJ) are throwing shade at the now iconic image of the ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times per second, placing it among the fastest-spinning stars ever observed. The ...

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...

The first ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way may not be as accurate ... is 4.3 million times the mass of our sun. The groundbreaking image of the black ...

The Milky Way galaxy also has a supermassive black hole at its center, called Sagittarius A* ... mass approximately 4 million times that of the sun. By closely observing its surroundings, we ...

2024 — Researchers have discovered compelling evidence suggesting that the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is likely the result ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...

Growing up in Long Beach, California, his parents adhered to a creationist view of the universe. But young Koerner caught ...

A new study by DTU Space researchers has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It ...