The Galactic center at a distance of about 30000 light years. In the center of the image is the supermassive black hole Sgr A* (not…
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Researchers discovered the first ultra-faint dwarf galaxies to be found around a spiral galaxy with the mass of the Milky Way that’s outside of the…
A lonely Milky Way analog galaxy, too massive for its wall. The background image shows the distribution of dark matter (green and blue) and galaxies…
Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects —…
This illustration shows the Milky Way galaxy’s inner and outer halos. A halo is a spherical cloud of stars surrounding a galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA,…
NASA visualization of the Milky Way’s Fermi bubbles. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC Evidence shows strong outflowing winds responsible for the “Fermi bubbles.” A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan…
One of the new high-resolution simulations of the dark matter enveloping the Milky Way and its neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. The new study shows that…
An artist’s conception of the Milky Way. Using data from the Gaia satellite telescope, a team headed by Lund University researchers in Sweden discovered that…
Artist’s impression of the old white dwarfs WDJ2147-4035 and WDJ1922+0233 surrounded by orbiting planetary debris, which will accrete onto the stars and pollute their atmospheres.…
Split view of the visible Milky Way galaxy versus its galactic underworld. Credit: University of Sydney A new study creates the first map of our…
Astronomers have spotted signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Astronomers have spotted signs of…
In this illustration, stars are seen to be in close orbit around the supermassive black hole that lurks at the center of the Milky Way,…
This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is the crushed remnant…
One of the surprising discoveries coming out of Gaia data release 3, is that Gaia is able to detect starquakes – tiny motions on the…
The newly discovered massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young stars. Credit: Original image by…
This is the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Credit: EHT Collaboration Team reveals…
Meet Sagittarius A* – Astronomers Reveal First Image of the Black Hole at the Heart of the Milky Way
This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It’s the first direct visual evidence of…
An artist’s conception of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. Credit: Image courtesy of ESA/AOES Medialab Today (May 12, 2022) at…
View of the gamma-ray sky. Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration Researchers from The Australian National UniversityFounded in 1946, the Australian National University (ANU) is a national…
This image shows the Milky Way as seen by Gaia. The squares represent the location of globular clusters, the triangles the location of satellite galaxies,…