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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been used to discover REBELS-25, a Milky Way-like galaxy from the ...
What's in the middle of the Milky Way? In our neck of the cosmos, everything revolves around a supermassive black hole.
A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...
At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 million times more massive than the sun. The idea is that Sgr A* scarfed down ...
Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the ...
The Milky Way and its halo of stars, many of which have been cannabalised via collisions with other galaxies (Image credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, T Donlon et al. 2024; Background Milky Way and Magellanic ...
The Milky Way is readily visible without the use of a telescope or high-powered binoculars. But if you have them, magnification devices will let you get a closer look at various points of interest.
Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...
April Klaphake of Sauk Centre and Heidi Montag of Sauk Rapids will be among 10 vying for the crown on Aug. 20 at the ...
We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated ...
The Milky Way's band arches over the Cerro Pachón mountaintop, as if connecting the Rubin Auxiliary Telescope (on the left) with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (on the right).
Milky Way will be visible over Memorial Day weekend. When to see our galaxy Billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant until May 30, 2025, as the ...