When astronomers first unveiled the image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, it ...

The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...

Years ago, astronomers started working on a comprehensive map of the Milky Way by observing it from the European Southern Observatory, an intergovernmental research organization located in Chile.

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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 ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Toronto has found what they believe is the oldest stellar disk in the Milky Way galaxy.

The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...

The Church's Steve Kilbey takes a deep dive into the making of their Starfish single "Under the Milky Way" on The Story ...

What might our Milky Way galaxy have looked like at that time ... structures we can see through our telescopes in the ... Vivid Portrait of Interacting Galaxies Marks Webb's Second Anniversary ...

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Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way, and it could change our understanding of how galaxies form. The galaxy ...