An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...
"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...
JWST captured this dazzling display of flaring activity from the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way.
Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...
Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...
Scientists observed constant flares from the Milky Way's black hole, revealing unpredictable and intense activity.
Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...
They published a paper in the May 2008 issue of Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “The Collision Between the Milky Way and Andromeda.” (Admittedly, be wary of the term ...
In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...
Named "Quipu" after an Incan measuring system, the superstructure spans an astonishing 1.3 billion light-years across which is over 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, according to a report ...
Both also reside in an outer part of the Milky Way galaxy. They note that either or both could be dense clouds of gas or a type of star that has not been seen before. The latter possibility seems ...