Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...
The Milky Way’s peculiar velocity is relatively low ... to the ingenuity and persistence of the scientific community. Note: Materials provided above by The Brighter Side of News.
New research suggests that most of the atoms within the human body likely spent part of their lives drifting beyond the Milky ...
Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Veiled in gas and clouds, the Milky Way’s center does not easily give up secrets. The initial detection of its supermassive black hole (SMBH) decades ago posed as many riddles as it solved ...
Death Valley National Park offers some of the best stargazing in America, with DarkSky International having designated it as a Gold Tier Dark Sky Park.
Spur and gap features seen in Milky Way’s GD-1 stellar stream could be caused by a self-interacting dark matter subhalo. New research points to a dark matter subhalo as the architect behind the unique ...
Previously, scientists believed that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was a sleeping giant. It would periodically awaken to devour any star of gas clouds that fell into it.