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.
A new paper makes the strange case for prime numbers at the heart of physics. Like physics, math has its own set of " fundamental particles " — the prime numbers, which can't be broken down into ...
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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.
Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...
Scientists discovered the Milky Way lies within a vast flat dark-matter sheet spanning about 32 million light-years.
This map is part of ACES — the ALMA CMZ Exploration Survey — a project designed to understand how gas condenses into stars in ...
"We are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically ...
Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...
A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...
The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.