Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...
A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...
A much-loved chocolate treat that disappeared from shelves three years ago has returned alongside two new varieties. Fans of ...
Recent studies challenge the long-held belief that the Milky Way is a standard model for understanding galaxy formation, ...
The Paris-based digital aggregator Under The Milky Way (UMW) is celebrating the successful global distribution of 28 European ...
New research confirms the Universe is expanding faster than theoretical models predict, intensifying the Hubble tension.
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
The universe really seems to be expanding fast. Too fast, even. A new measurement confirms what previous—and highly ...
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...
The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...
Image: CfA/Mel Weiss Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for ... and the team’s model offer more clarity ...
In the team’s paper, published in Nature on Dec. 11, they created a model to “undo” the visual ... that we are seeing the Firefly Sparkle, Milky Way-like galaxy progenitors were about ...