“They’re all quite fast — hundreds of kilometers per second, going the wrong way.” A view of the disk of the Milky Way surrounded by our galaxy’s halo which could be home to three surprisingly ancient stars. (Image credit: Serge Brunier;
It would appear that Sagittarius A* is getting into the spirit of the Super Bowl. The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is spinning so fast that it is warping spacetime into an oval shape reminiscent of an American
The discovery of the object was made using the MeerKAT radio telescope array in South Africa A new object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known to scientists, and yet lighter than the lightest
The star S0–6 appears to have traveled 50,000 light-years from a now-extinct galaxy to reach the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way The heart of the Milky Way as seen by the Subaru Telescope showing the
A river of gas emanating from two tiny galaxies in the Milky Way’s outskirts hosts stars after all. (Image credit: CfA / Melissa Weiss) A river of hydrogen gas flows outward from the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf
In a historic first, astronomers have detected low-frequency gravitational waves using a galaxy-sized antenna of millisecond pulsars in the Milky Way. Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars being affected by gravitational ripples produced by a supermassive black hole binary
While observing the outer region of the Milky Way galaxy, our Spitzer Telescope captured this infrared image of a cloud of gas and dust that looks like the hollowed-out pumpkins we see every Halloween. Nicknamed the “Jack-o’-Lantern Nebula,” it was likely created by
New results indicate that star formation in our galaxy radiated out from its core as young stars drifted apart. The Sagittarius B1 region at Galactic Center, home to intense star formation. (Image credit: F. Nogueras-Lara et al. / MPIA) Astronomers have
(CNN)A new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into one millions of years from now — and previews the eventual, similar fate of our own Milky Way galaxy. The Gemini North telescope, located on the summit
The stellar-mass black hole is likely one of 100 million solitary black holes in the Milky Way, scientists said. Artist’s illustration of a black hole drifting through the Milky Way. (Image credit: FECYT, IAC) A rogue black hole wandering the space