It feels like every other day now, new research emerges which manages to turn our understanding of the universe completely on ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy may not be sleeping, after all.

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

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 ...

Scientists have published a spectacular new polarised light image of the strong magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Seen in polarised light for ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. As black holes go, it is pretty quiet, which has allowed for an interesting environment in its ...

Here are some of our favorites. NASA welcomed the new year ... As far as cosmic events go, there are few more dramatic than one entire galaxy crashing into another entire galaxy.