Tag: Milky

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A team of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers led by physics professor Charles Gammie is part of ...

University of Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a new sample catalog of more than ...

An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed nearly 1,000 mysterious strands, inexplicably dangling ...

An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés, has found that the black hole at the centre ...

Astronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a ...

98.5% of the Sun is made up of two light chemical elements, hydrogen and helium, while the remaining 1.5% consists ...

Using observations and archival data from several of NSF's NOIRLab’s observatories, together with observations from telescopes around the world and ...

Astronomers have made the most precise measurements yet of the motions of stars around the supermassive black hole at the ...

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO’s VLTI) has obtained the deepest and sharpest images to date of ...

Our Milky Way's central black hole has a leak. This supermassive black hole looks like it still has the vestiges ...

FORT DAVIS, Texas — Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin’s McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black ...

This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains ...

In order to better understand the history and evolution of the Milky Way, astronomers are studying the composition of the ...