Dark Matter May Be Annihilating Itself at the Heart of the Milky Way
A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...
Astronomers discover 'space tornadoes' around the Milky Way's core
Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...
Hubble Just Revealed a Breathtaking New View of a Nearby Galaxy
Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.
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Strange signals from the center of our galaxy hint at a new kind of dark matter
Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...
7 jaw-dropping images of Milky Way Galaxy captured by NASA
The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy, about 100,000 light-years across, containing roughly 200 billion stars, and our solar system is located about 26,000 light-years from its center. It takes ...
Runaway stars reveal hidden black hole in Milky Way's nearest neighbor
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...
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10 Astonishing Things You Should Know About the Milky Way
Above is not a sky of black, but a luminous sea ... is needed to account for the gravity that causes the Milky Way to spin.
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Wispy comet photobombs 'rare' planetary parade above Chile's Atacama Desert (photos)
In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...
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Mysterious radio pulses from the Milky Way ‘are unlike anything we knew before’
Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our Milky Way galaxy that would ... focusing on the same patch of sky, she found six more ...