The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...

Part of the world's biggest mega-science facility - the SKA Observatory - is being built in outback Western Australia.Author Randall Wayth SKA-Low ...

The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

The first image from the international SKA Observatory’s telescope in Australia, SKA-Low, has been released today – a significant milestone in its ...

The first image captured by the unfinished SKA-Low radio telescope in WA’s Murchison region has revealed a rare galaxy with a ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

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A new study of 263 galaxies has provided fresh evidence to support a theory that our universe is the interior of a black hole ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a puzzling pattern in galaxy rotation, sparking theories that the universe may ...

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A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster ...