Astronomers have spotted signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter…
Precise Insights into the Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way’s Heart Astronomers use Gemini Observatory and an international telescope collaboration to shed light on…
Hubble Determines Mass of Black Hole Isolated Black Hole Supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* — the black hole at the center of the…
Gaia is a mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) to create an precise three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars throughout our Milky…
Newfound black holes in dwarf galaxies shed light on the origin of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole. A team of researchers led by astronomers in…
Team reveals first image of the black hole at our galaxy’s heart. An international team of more than 300 scientists from 80 institutions has created…
Today (May 12, 2022), at simultaneous press conferences around the world, including at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Germany, astronomers have unveiled the…
Update: Stunning Reveal: First Image of the Black Hole at the Center of Our Milky Way Galaxy Today (May 12, 2022) at 9:00 a.m. EDT…
Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have found an alternative explanation for a mysterious gamma-ray signal coming from the center of the galaxy, which…
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, began forming around 12 billion years ago. Since then, it has been growing in both mass and size through a…
Using data from ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have shown that a part of the Milky Way known as the ‘thick disc’ began forming 13 billion…
In 2020, the X-ray telescope eRosita took images of two enormous bubbles extending far above and below the center of our galaxy. Since then, astronomers…
In their pursuit of understanding cosmic evolution, scientists rely on a two-pronged approach. Using advanced instruments, astronomical surveys attempt to look farther and farther into…
Ancient dwarf galaxy reconstructed with [email protected] volunteer computer. Astrophysicists for the first time have calculated the original mass and size of a dwarf galaxy that…
University of Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a new sample catalog of more than 24 million stars that can…
Star formation in the Milky Way primarily occurs in long, dense filaments of gas and dust that stretch along the spiral arms. Dubbed “bones” because…
Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you’ll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that’s only a tiny…
‘A watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures,’ researcher says. An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed…
