A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this ...

At the heart of our galaxy lies a cosmic puzzle: although the Galactic Center is packed with star-making material, massive ...

When astronomers look at distant objects—far away in both space and time—all too often, dust gets in their eyes. Well, not ...

The glow of the universe's explosive birth had cooled, and space was filled with dense gas —mostly hydrogen—with no sources of light. For a long time, our understanding of the universe's first ...

First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way's core, appears to be ionized (meaning it is electrically charged because it has lost electrons ...

Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / S. Crowe "A big question has been, if there is so much dense gas and dust here, and we know stars form in these kinds of clouds, why are so few stars born in ...

"This planet is of particular interest because it is one of the most metal-rich and densest gas giants that we know of so far." When astronomers like Ali Rafi refer to "metals," they are elements ...

It is constantly in motion, with gas circulating between vast, tenuous, hot bubbles caused by stellar activity and more compact, cold, dense clouds where new stars are born. The gas in these dense ...

In these follow-up simulations, a small star, about three quarters the mass of the sun, is birthed out of the dense gas with planetesimals—kilometer-scale precursors to terrestrial planets—in tow.