Down here on Earth, if we’re lucky, we can spot the Milky Way glimmering in the night sky like a sparkling stretch of fog across space. It can be a rare sight, especially for city dwellers who ...
Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the Chandra team.
Almost every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its centre. The one in our Milky Way is called Sagittarius A*, and it’s about 4 million times the mass of our Sun. Black holes grow larger ...