At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from ...

It is a fascinating fact that a swirl of stars, light-years away from us, shares an uncanny resemblance to our home galaxy, the Milky Way. A group of astronomers has stumbled upon a galaxy in the ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...

Scientists have found the beginnings of a young universe that may offer insights into the beginnings of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Geoff Bennett and Miles O'Brien discussed why scientists are ...

A binary star system is orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

12, 2024 — Astronomers have directed NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location ...

In a find that could rewrite what we know about the most extreme parts of our galaxy, a team of astronomers has discovered a ...

New images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a galaxy, named “Firefly Sparkle,” resembling an early Milky Way. This discovery by Wellesley College shows a galaxy forming shortly after the Big ...