10 Astonishing Things You Should Know About the Milky Way
The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100 ...
Runaway stars reveal hidden black hole in Milky Way's nearest neighbor
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...
Astronomy: Black hole in satellite galaxy hurls stars into Milky Way
At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently betray a supermassive black hole.
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Speeding star offers a rare glimpse of the Milky Way's galactic centre
A star has been spotted shooting away from the heart of our galaxy at around 500 kilometres per second, giving astronomers ...
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Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
The most widely accepted theory of galactic evolution holds that supermassive black holes are found only in the largest ... Within the Milky Way itself there are hypervelocity stars that probably ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
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Hidden monster black hole in the galaxy next door fired stars at us like million mph cosmic bullets
"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...
Celestial fireworks: A brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resembles a glittering fireworks display in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Westerlund 2 is a …
Young stars coming to life out of the proverbial celestial dust is perhaps the most captivating sight in the cosmos. Check ...