Fastest Star Ever Found in the Milky Way Is Racing Around Our Galaxy’s Black Hole
Wide-field view of the center of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO and Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide…
NASA Reveals Stunning X-Ray Views of 16 Galaxies
Galaxies are often called the jewels of the universe, since they are enormous assemblies of stars, gas, dust,…
Fastest star in the Milky Way found zipping around black hole
NEW YORK — A telescope has spied the fastest known star in our galaxy, racing around the supermassive black hole…
WHAT’S UP IN THE SKY: When dust gets in your skies | Astronomy
Today: Every star rotates. Our Sun takes a little less than one Earth month to rotate once on…
The Milky Way glows brightly in first-of-its-kind neutrino image
IceCube has produced the first neutrino image of the Milky Way, revealing high-energy particle activity concentrated along our…
A cosmic breadcrumb trail leads astronomers to a discovery in another galaxy
A cosmic breadcrumb trail leads astronomers to a discovery in another galaxy A faint ribbon of stars in…
The world’s largest digital camera captured more than 500,000 galaxies and 50,000 stars in one deep view of the universe
Rubin Observatory stacked hundreds of images from its 3.2-billion-pixel camera; the final view contains over half a million…
This Star Is Racing Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 8% the Speed of Light
Illustration of a sunlike star passing very close to a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser…
Invisible Black Holes Could Be Triggering Supernovae
Primordial black holes may pass through white dwarfs and ignite a subset of Type Ia supernovae. New models…
ALMA Telescope Finds SETI Has Searched 21 Times More Stars Than Anyone Knew
For six decades, SETI researchers have been pointing their radio telescopes at a narrow slice of the electromagnetic…
A Powerful Cosmic Accelerator Has Been Confirmed in the Milky Way
NASA’s Fermi telescope detected GeV gamma rays from LHAASO J1912+1014u, helping confirm it as a proton PeVatron. The…
The Milky Way May Have Flipped More Than 90 Degrees During Its Violent Youth
Artistic illustration of how the Milky Way’s disc may have shifted by more than 90 degrees. The faint…