An international research team led by Dr. Zhang Suinan from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of ...

They also noted the frequent detection of 511 electron volt (eV) gamma rays coming from the galactic bulge. This is the radiation produced when electrons and positron pairs decay, turning the mass ...

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.

The CMZ is an area of intense interest, and these observations provided a view of the galactic center 100 times sharper than ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Deep in the galaxy’s central molecular zone (CMZ), surrounding the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, clouds of dust and gas swirl amid energetic shock waves.

Haas and his colleagues found that the density of black holes actually increases as you move away from the galactic center, before dropping again at a certain distance. Such a density profile is a ...

New infrared observations of Sagittarius A* uncover flaring activity in its accretion disk, advancing knowledge of black ...

In the center of the Milky Way, a turbulent region characterized by the presence of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A ...

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and Philosophy of Science and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication.