Sun May Have Escaped Milky Way’s Crowded Core Billions of Years Ago
Using a vast catalog of Sun-like stars built by ESA’s Gaia mission, astronomers have found strong evidence that…
The Sun Was Formed 10,000 Light-Years Closer to the Milky Way Center. It Escaped in a Massive Migration of Thousands of Solar Twins
A mass migration of stellar twins. Stars similar to our Sun form a mass migration from the center…
VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole
The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were…
The Milky Way’s center is hiding exotic chemistry, and ALMA just revealed it
Astronomers have just unveiled a breathtaking new view of the very center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.…
A pulsar rotating 122 times per second could be present at the heart of the Milky Way
ⓘ NidhiYashwanth – Pixabay An artist’s illustration showing a pulsar. After conducting research, astronomers would have discovered a…
Steve Durst – the US citizen space diplomat who reached out to China
Steve Durst, a US space entrepreneur who spent decades building rare bridges with China’s space sector despite restrictions…
The Milky Way Will Crash into the Andromeda Galaxy in 4.5 Billion Years and Scientists Think They Finally Know Why
A view of the potential merger between the Milky Way and Andromeda as it may appear in Earth’s…
Is the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy Actually a Massive Knot of Dark Matter? Sounds Crazy, But the Numbers Line Up
Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds around a dense…
Why supermassive black hole continues to belch matter years after chewing up a star
Scientists are observing the behaviour of ‌a supermassive black hole that is displaying exceptionally messy eating habits. Primarily…
Daring Theory Challenges the Black Hole’s Reign Over the Milky Way’s Core
Astronomers have yet to fully grasp the Galactic Center—the heart of the Milky Way—although they’re fairly certain that…
Milky Way’s ‘Central Black Hole’ is Compact Object Composed of Fermionic Dark Matter, Study Says
For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as…
Scientists spot largest sulfur molecule ever found in deep space
Deep in the cold, dusty spaces between stars where no planets exist and no sunlight shines, astronomers have…