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Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

The Milky Way ripples like a vast cosmic wave. Gaia’s precise measurements reveal a colossal motion sweeping through the galaxy’s disc, an echo of something mysterious in our galaxy’s ancient past.

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...

Radio astronomy opens a window onto the invisible universe. While our eyes can detect visible light, countless objects in ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

A team of astronomers have found a mysterious object in the distant universe that could be dark matter or an inactive smaller ...

With help from citizen scientists, astronomers have found the most powerful and distant "odd radio circle" ever detected.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant and powerful 'odd radio circle' (ORC) ever detected. These enormous, mysterious ...

The sun is located about 26,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy, aka the Milky Way, and its orbit is close to ...