The Milky Way’s central black hole has long posed an awkward problem. By every standard picture of how black holes behave, ...
After searching for 50 years, astronomers have finally discovered powerful winds blowing from the supermassive black hole at ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - After five decades of trying, astronomers have finally discovered the wind ...
The hunt is over. After more than 50 years of searching, astrophysicists at Northwestern University have finally discovered ...
The Magellanic Clouds are a pair of dwarf galaxies passing the Milky Way probably for the first time, but as they move they ...
Theoretically speaking, black holes should breathe stuff out as they suck stuff in. But for 50 years, astronomers weren’t ...
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) captured the center of the Milky Way galaxy in infrared. The ...
Northwestern researchers used ALMA to map galactic-center carbon monoxide gas 100 times more deeply than ever before and ...
A mysterious region near the center of the Milky Way has captured the attention of astronomers. Known as Sagittarius C, this strange place holds thousands of newborn stars, huge clouds of gas, and ...
If you're looking for something to do Memorial Day weekend and into May, here's how to spot a band of stars comprising the Milky Way in Arizona.