The galaxy's vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive ...

On a cool night in August, more than 100 people gathered in a dark corner on Frisco Main Street. The lights at the Frisco ...

The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

Using supercomputer simulations, a team of researchers investigated a mysterious source of gamma light coming from the Milky ...

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

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A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way may actually be the first evidence for an elusive "dark" phenomenon, new ...