There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

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 ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

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 ...

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history ... population of 20 stars currently orbiting in the vicinity of the Sun. Unlike the Sun, however, these stars have almost no metals.

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