Record-Breaking Black Hole Discovered Just 2000 Light-Years From Earth
Astronomers have identified a stellar black hole in the Milky Way with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, located only 2000 light-years away….
Astronomers have identified a stellar black hole in the Milky Way with a mass 33 times that of the Sun, located only 2000 light-years away….
ESA’s Gaia mission has uncovered a massive dormant black hole in our galaxy, revealing new insights into the formation of stellar-mass black holes and setting…
The Event Horizon Telescope has captured an image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarized light, revealing strong, organized magnetic fields similar to…
Astronomers have identified what could be two of the Milky Way’s earliest building blocks: Named “Shakti” and “Shiva,” these appear to be the remnants of…
A team of astronomers including those from the University of Tokyo created the first-ever map of magnetic field structures within a spiral arm of our…
MIT’s study shows outer Milky Way stars rotate slower, indicating a lighter core with less dark matter, contradicting previous assumptions. By clocking the speed of…
Through the study of detailed data obtained from a powerful ten-meter telescope located in Hawaii, a team of scientists at Lund University in Sweden have…
Recent Gaia satellite findings suggest that dwarf galaxies are transient and less influenced by dark matter than previously believed, challenging long-held assumptions about their nature…
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Gaia collaboration teams have published new data in the form of five Focused Product Releases. The results are…
Astronomers’ results bolster the hypothesis of how our galaxy evolved. The Milky Way is often depicted as a flat, spinning disk of dust, gas, and…
An international team has found that the IRS13 star cluster near our galaxy’s central black hole is surprisingly young. The discovery, made possible through decades…
For the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has created an image of the Milky Way using neutrinos—minuscule, elusive particles of the cosmos. This revolutionary…
Hundreds of horizontal filaments point toward our central supermassive black hole. New radio telescope images reveal hundreds of filaments along the galactic plane, each measuring…
A team of international researchers led by Dr. Florian Peißker at the Institute of Astrophysics at the University of Cologne has discovered a newly forming…
UCLA astronomers think the object, X7, might be debris cloud from a stellar collision. An object near the supermassive black hole at the center of…
Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies have been discovered for the first time surrounding a Milky Way-sized galaxy, similar to those found within the Milky Way’s neighborhood. According…
A galaxy has been discovered that mirrors the very early version of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The galaxy, dubbed ‘The Sparkler’, is embedded…
Milky Way Discovered To Be More Unique Than Previously Thought Is the Milky Way special, or, at least, is it in a special place in…