Now let's look at some early theories about our humble galaxy. As we mentioned, Galileo discovered that the Milky Way is made ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, causing the larger galaxy to “wobble,” imparting ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

similar to our Milky Way, but containing many more stars. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to our own. (We do have closer neighbor galaxies, but they are much smaller. Two of them ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy ... “In our data, we saw constantly ...

It seemed that these redshifted galaxies were all moving away from the Milky Way. Hubble’s results suggested the farther away a galaxy was, the faster it was moving away from Earth. Hubble got ...

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy ... hole at the center of our galaxy. ] “This is the first time we have seen a time delay in measurements ...

We haven't yet found the smallest timescale ... orbiting near a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Laura Driessen, an astronomer at the University of Sydney ...

Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't ...

You could fit our entire Milky Way galaxy between them and still have room ... with spotting the Bullseye at its ringed prime. “We’re catching the Bullseye at a very special moment in time ...