The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest galactic neighbor, is a majestic spiral galaxy like the Milky Way. Let’s uncover some ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

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," ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

NASA’s Spitzer Telescope revealed the Milky Way’s hidden center, using infrared to uncover its dense, star-packed core. This ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS announced the 2024 Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement Prize on Thursday recognizing two scientists ...

Chen Liquan from the Institute of Physics at the CAS and Chen Xianhui from the University of Science and Technology of China were honored with the Individual Achievement Award.

Researchers believe that a supernova in our galaxy could reveal the secrets of dark matter by emitting detectable gamma rays from axions. This discovery would provide key insights into the elusive ...

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A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in ...