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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.
Colorado’s night skies will be filled with hundreds of shooting stars this month as one of the best meteor showers of the ...
A recent study led by Dilda Berdikhan, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese ...
Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the ...
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.
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 ...
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).
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 ...
Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...
Milky Way visible over Memorial Day weekend across California: When to see our galaxy Billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, should appear especially vibrant till May 30 ...
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 ...