For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers, shining in ...

James Webb Space Telescope observes mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, revealing flare evolution, synchrotron cooling, and magnetic field measurements.

Learn how a newly detected gamma-ray halo in the Milky Way could mark the first direct glimpse of dark matter.

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

Cambridge, MA– Life near the center of our galaxy never had a chance. Every 20 million years on average, gas pours into the galactic center and slams together, creating millions of new stars. The more ...

The center of the Milky Way galaxy is currently a quiet place where a supermassive black hole slumbers, only occasionally slurping small sips of hydrogen gas. But it wasn’t always this way. A new ...

Researchers have successfully performed the world's first Milky Way simulation that accurately represents more than 100 ...

People will be able to catch a glimpse of the Milky Way galaxy this weekend The Milky Way will be viewable with the naked eye, but telescopes always help The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc ...

Around 3.5 million years ago, a gigantic energy flare punched out from the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The radiation it released erupted in two energized cones that were so powerful, the ...