The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd ...

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Scientists have linked supernovae to the heating of the Milky Way's outer gas layer, revealing a cosmic dance of creation and ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

They found that, despite initially random behavior, the fuzzy dark matter quickly collected into a large clump in the center, with more diffuse clouds of dark matter surrounding it. The gas ...