Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller ...

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ALMA’s most ambitious galactic survey yet exposes a wild, filament-filled stellar nursery at the very heart of the Milky Way. Astronomers have produced a remarkable new view of the center of the Milky ...

What: Researchers report the possible discovery of a millisecond pulsar near the Galactic Center using data from the ...

Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have created a detailed map of the cold cosmic gas in the Milky Way's core. This ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

The heart of the Milky Way has just been revealed in the most detailed ALMA mosaic ever created. Astronomers captured over ...

A NASA animation has sized the biggest black holes known to scientists, including one that has the mass of 66 billion Suns.