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.
If you thought that the Milky Way was just your average run-of-the-mill galaxy, you’d be wrong. Turns out that it’s quite the freak and we shouldn’t consider it a standard example of how ...
Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," ...
Scientists have captured the first-ever close-up image of a dying star outside of the Milky Way galaxy. The star, WOH G64, is a red supergiant located 160,000 light-years away in the Large ...
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 ...