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An international team of astronomers on Thursday unveiled the first image of a supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy – a cosmic body known as Sagittarius A*.The image – produced by a global team of scientists…

This illustration is an artist’s impression of the thin, rocky debris disc discovered around the two Hyades white dwarfs. Rocky asteroids are thought to have been perturbed by planets within the system and diverted inwards towards the…

The telescope is named after the point of no return around a black hole. The team scored its first triumph in April 2019, when it presented a picture of the M87 black hole. In 2021, team members refined their data to reveal magnetic…

We’re going to learn something new about the Milky Way, our home galaxy, on May 12.Image: Gizmodo (Photo: Getty Images)The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has made a significant discovery about the Milky Way, butwe don’t know what…

A new analysis from two astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, provides a better understanding of the Milky Way's dramatic early years.By determining the age of individual stars in the galaxy,…

The Milky Way's thick disk is 2 billion years older than astronomers previously thought and likely formed barely 800 million years after the Big Bang, a new study based on an unusual type of star found. Our galaxy can be split into two…

The NASA visualization team created a superposition of an image of the Milky Way, taken by the European Space Agency’s Gaia space observatory, and a visualization of the simulations of the eRosita and Fermi bubbles prepared by Karen…

Image of the larger shockwave front, and an image of the Milky Way for scale. Credit: Francesco de Gasperin, SARAO Astronomers have a thing for big explosions and collisions, and it always seems like they are trying to one-up themselves…

Using data from ESA’s Gaia spacecraft, astronomers have looked for the remains of ancient dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way’s halo, which surrounds the disk of younger stars and central bulge of older stars that comprise the more…

The dark filament “Nessie,” as seen in the infrared with the IRAC camera on Spitzer. Nessie, a cloud of cold gas and dust, is a “bone” tracing the Milky Way’s spiral arm structure. Astronomers have used SOFIA, NASA’s Stratospheric…