A breathtaking timelapse captured the Milky Way in all its glory, shining over Marathon, Florida, on March 3. The footage, ...

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

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

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

New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...

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The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal ... Space Telescope (JWST), scientists discovered that the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr ...

In fact, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy looks more like a fireworks display. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the most detailed view into the Milky Way's ...

LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. High-resolution imagery from NASA’s ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, observing a steady ...