Scientists have discovered an enormous stellar-mass black hole in our Milky Way galaxy that’s roughly 33 times more massive than…
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Ancient Egyptians were known for their religious beliefs and astronomical knowledge of the Sun, Moon, and planets, but up until…
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Read More »For the first time, we’re seeing the Sagittarius A* black hole in polarized light. The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration says…
Read More »Astronomers have identified what could be two of the Milky Way’s earliest building blocks: Named “Shakti” and “Shiva,” these appear…
Read More »The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime…
Read More »By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky Way galaxy, MIT physicists have found that stars further out in…
Read More »An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than…
Read More »The biography of our home galaxy may be due for some revisions. That’s because a bar-shaped collection of stars at…
Read More »The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in…
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