Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every time astronomers build a better telescope or reanalyze old data, something ...

In new observations from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, scientists have spotted a third gas cloud joining the already known gas clouds G1 and G2. The new one is called G2t, ...

Astronomers have finally captured an image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Because black holes emit no light and appear extremely small from Earth, ...

A new image captured by the Very Large Telescope reveals stars and gas orbiting the "invisible giant" at the heart of our ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of researchers has discovered chemical fingerprints from enormous ...

The catastrophic collision of a black hole and a neutron star sent ripples across the universe. New analysis of those ripples could upend a major theory about how these extreme pairs form. When you ...

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 ...

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

A record-breaking image of the Milky Way's core has just been released, and what scientists found inside is unlike anything seen before.

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New ALMA observations reveal a complex network of gas filaments in the Milky Way’s central 650 light-years, enabling detailed studies of star formation in extreme galactic conditions.