One important part of the data is a more accurate map of the inner region of the Milky Way, which is often obscured by dust and is a busy region full of stars, gas, and the giant black hole at the ...

The most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way contains incredible images of ... It is host to at least two stellar-mass black holes and six free-floating "rogue planets," that aren't orbiting ...

The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has officially ended its mission to map the Milky Way after 12 years of ... Topics such as binary stars and black holes will be explored using the ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...

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.

The mission, which has been mapping the Milky ... and black holes." Throughout its operational lifetime, Gaia studied almost 2 billion stars and other objects in and around the Milky Way.

Scientists discover 2 stars dancing around the Milky Way's black hole — and they could point to a type of planet never seen before —Baby stars that defy explanation are 'swarming like bees ...