Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or, rather, the magnetic field around its shadow.

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching ... let’s get this out of the way. This is a straight shot. That’s right. No layers in Photoshop. No multi-image, bracketed-exposure ...

A visualization of the Milky Way galaxy, with the stars that Khyati Malhan and Hans-Walter Rix identified in the Gaia DR3 data set as belonging to Shiva and Shakti shown as colored dots.

The plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, which we see edge-on from our perspective on Earth, cuts a luminous swath across the image. The projection used in GigaGalaxy Zoom place the viewer in front of ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

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*.

is the most detailed radio image yet of our galaxy. Radio observations of a large section of the galactic plane of the Milky Way were conducted with the ASKAP radio telescope and the Parkes radio ...

Japanese astronomers are among an international research team that successfully captured the first image of a black hole at the center of the Milky Way, which could shed light on the formation of ...

The galactic centre area of the Milky Way in Sagittarius behind the grand old barn near home in ... [+] southern Alberta, on June 30, 2019. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety ... In particular, Leavitt would scrutinize images of the Small and Large ...