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 ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.

Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...

A strange energy source at the center of the Milky Way may be a new type of dark matter. Scientists found that hydrogen gas ...

A new study suggests our observable universe may be trapped inside a black hole after examining a James Webb Space Telescope ...

Recent research proposes a new form of dark matter that may actually be lighter in mass than other dark matter candidates.

Now, researchers have discovered a strange energy source at the center of our galaxy that could be linked to a different type ...

Astronomers say they have traced a mysterious pulsing in the Milky Way to a surprising source: a dead star locked in a dance ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...