The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by astrophysicist Michael Yeung of the Institute, a team of researchers has ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

When zoomed in — and still in crispt detail — especially dim clouds can be seen in between the stars of the Milky Way as well. They are called “galactic cirrus” as they evoke the shape of ...

The Event Horizon Telescope's famous image of Sagittarius A* may depict an artifact, raising questions about the black hole's ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to ...

The universe is littered with trillions of galaxies like the Milky Way and Andromeda. If you spent your entire life, a hundred lives, looking at every galaxy you could see in a telescope, you would ...

The first image of our Milky Way's black hole, initially depicted as a bright ring, might not be accurate, according to a reanalysis by NAOJ scientists. They suggest the black hole, filled with ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...