Milky Way viewing is at its best right now, especially if you’re in the southern hemisphere. Here's what to look out for, ...

Using machine learning to analyse data from the Event Horizon Telescope, researchers found the black hole at the centre of ...

The team found only a 2 percent probability that the galaxies will collide in the next five billion years. In slightly over half of the simulated scenarios, Andromeda and the Milky Way experience at ...

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from Earth and 23.5 million kilometres in diameter. Sagittarius A* (pronounced ...

Astronomers have spotted a rare "'missing link"' black hole, and it's lurking right in the center of our galaxy. The IRS 13 ...

The Milky Way may not have a catastrophic collision with another huge galaxy as has been predicted, computer simulations revealed Monday, giving our home galaxy a coin-flip chance of avoiding ...

The Event Horizon Telescope released the first image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, in 2022. (Supplied: EHT Collaboration)Sagittarius A* is just 26,000 light ...

Experts at Durham University carried out 100,000 simulations of what catastrophe could happen if the Andromeda galaxy collides with the Milky Way.

The Milky Way rotates, with stars in the disk orbiting the galactic centre. The speed of rotation varies with distance from the centre. The Milky Way is part of a group of galaxies known as the ...

Galactic centre of the Milky Way Galaxy rising over the Jurassic Coast at Charmouth, Dorset, UK. Photo: Getty. Julia Musto ©UK Independent. Sat 22 Mar 2025 at 03:30.

THERE’S some real stars quality in the nightscapes nominated for the annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year. Photos taken from space, Chile and the US are all in the running for the out-of… ...