Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

These observations reveal that galaxies first formed thick, chaotic disks, and only later developed the calm, thin disks seen in modern spirals like the Milky Way. The figures illustrate the revealed ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Using millions of simulations and AI, astronomers discovered the Milky Way’s black hole spins near top speed. The breakthrough, supported by four decades of distributed computing innovation, hints at ...

Michael Janssen at Radboud University in the Netherlands and his colleagues were studying the black hole at the Milky Way’s centre, Sagittarius A*, using the data gathered by a network of ...

Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ...

AI Reveals Milky Way’s Black Hole Spins Near Top Speed. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 15, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 06 / 250614121952.htm. Morgridge Institute for Research.

There’s now a 50-50 chance this galaxy will crash into ours. Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda.

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe has been spotted blasting out powerful jets of plasma that are at least twice as long as the Milky Way is wide. Its host galaxy is a quasar called ...

June 2025 presents a unique chance to observe the Milky Way's core, visible from evening until dawn in dark locations. Favorable moon phases enhance the view, alongside planetary alignments and ...

Astronomers now believe the Milky Way’s “inevitable” collision with a neighboring galaxy is much less likely than originally thought.