Researchers from the University of Connecticut have created the first 3D maps of star-forming gas clouds in one of the most ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. An artist’s impression of what the dust around an active galactic ...

The region at the center of our galaxy is still full of mysteries, but astronomers have just found a clue to its past: Huge, radio-emitting bubbles, extending 700 light-years either side of the ...

Researchers hope to use the JWST to do the same for the black hole at the center of our galaxy. So far, no one has seen it. "Detecting the disk around Sagittarius A* with Webb would be a home run ...

specifically the 21-cm neutral hydrogen emissions coming from the heart of our galaxy. Turning a wok into an entry-level radio telescope doesn’t appear to be all that hard, at least judging by ...

There are large black holes at the center of just about every major galaxy, including our own. In 2022, an image was released from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that showed the first ever ...

The cores of galaxies may not be made of what we thought, new research suggests — they could hold one giant, invisible star ...

Scientists have found a group of ancient stars orbiting close to the center of our galaxy that may have formed in just the first billion years of the universe. That’s news because old stars are ...

Peißker was using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, to study mysterious G objects near our galaxy's center — apparent clumps of gas and dust that exhibit ...