The black hole at the milky way galaxy's heart is seen as a bright, fuzzy orange donut-shaped object against the blackness of space. The supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy isn't just ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the ...

There's a monster lurking in the center of the Milky Way, and it's faster than we thought. Like most galaxies, ours is anchored around a supermassive black hole. Astronomers have been studying it for ...

Physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center -- a surprise suggesting our galaxy's gravitational core may have less dark matter than ...

Researchers discover high-velocity clouds in the nearby spiral galaxy M83. These clouds are moving at speeds significantly different to the galaxy’s overall speed of rotation. The findings suggest ...

A long-held dream in astronomy has finally come into reach, and it carries a surprising emotional weight. For years, ...

The Milky Way is warped, possibly as the result of a collision with another galaxy billions of years ago. Studying this warp could reveal more about the structure of our galaxy's hidden matter. When ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

'Discovering that Sgr A* is rotating at its maximum speed has far-reaching implications for our understanding of black hole formation and the astrophysical processes associated with these fascinating ...