this supermassive black hole could have played a crucial role in shaping the Cloud’s internal structure and its interaction with the Milky Way. Of course, more evidence will be needed to confirm the ...

What if we told you scientists are on their way to proving it ... and Space Sciences Using the mass spectrometer and high-resolution optical microscopy, scientists discovered long, twisting ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

In just over three years since its launch, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has generated significant and ...

A breathtaking timelapse captured the Milky Way in all its glory, shining over Marathon, Florida, on March 3. The footage, ...

The image shows the bright Milky Way galaxy stretching high across the sky horizon just above the horizon of Earth as sunrise occurs. At the time, the ISS flew 265 miles over the Pacific Ocean ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a ... of very faint objects, and its high-quality mirror allowed it to distinguish ...

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a ... of very faint objects, and its high-quality mirror allowed it to distinguish ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists discovered that the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is constantly streaming out flares without respite.

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal to billions of suns and has an accretion disk made up of gas and dust surrounding it.