Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...
The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...
While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.
Observations from the ALMA telescope array uncovered evidence of giant space tornadoes at the core of our galaxy.
They also noted the frequent detection of 511 electron volt (eV) gamma rays coming from the galactic bulge. This is the ...
“The galactic center is an extreme and unique environment. The centers of other galaxies are too far away for us to observe in detail, but we can learn about these environments in general by ...
Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds ...
Astronomers suggest there's a giant "star grinder" lurking at the center of the Milky Way, churning up star systems.
Astronomers have made an exciting discovery near the center of our Milky Way galaxy—long, thin “space tornadoes” made of ...
New infrared observations of Sagittarius A* uncover flaring activity in its accretion disk, advancing knowledge of black ...