The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...
The EHTC image of Sagittarius A*—the black hole at the center of the Milky Way—shows a dark, central region (the black hole's shadow) surrounded by a bright ring of light (called the accretion ...
This summer, a dead star in a nearby galaxy flared back to life in an abnormally brilliant but brief nova, providing ...
The Milky Way galaxy also has a supermassive black hole at its center, called Sagittarius A* (A star). The black hole swallows everything, including light, making it impossible to see the ...
Related: New view of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way hints at an exciting hidden feature (image) "No telescope can capture an astronomical image perfectly," Makoto ...
The Milky Way galaxy has had a violent history. It did not grow though simple and calm accretion, but rather through the aggressive mergers of multiple smaller galaxies. Recently, a team of ...