When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...
Strange events at the heart of the Milky Way could point toward a new dark suspect that annihilates to influence the chemistry of the cosmos.
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal ... This video shows the 2.1 micron data taken on April 7, 2024.
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a Northwestern ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive ...
In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...
Within the Milky Way itself there are hypervelocity stars that ... this black hole structure could be between 251,000 and 1 million solar masses. Its average mass would be 600,000 times the ...
There are millions of galaxies in the universe, and while astronomers have cataloged many, some remain relatively unknown to ...
times the mass of the sun and is more than 1.3 billion light-years long, larger than the Milky Way. Quipu, as it is called, was discovered by an international team led by Germany's Max Planck ...