The center of our Milky Way galaxy is a mysterious place. Not only is it thousands of light-years away, it’s also cloaked in so much dust that most stars within are rendered invisible. Harvard ...

An independent reanalysis of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)’s observational data for the center of the elliptical galaxy M87 has produced images with different features, according to a new study.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning and scientifically puzzling image of Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2), a ...

Almost every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. An international research team has recently observed the Circinus galaxy, which is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, ...

A new collection of images features data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. These objects have been observed in invisible light — including X-rays, infrared, and radio — by some of the most ...

The study of black holes and the dynamics at the centres of galaxies has reached new heights with the advent of high-resolution imaging and advanced simulation techniques. Black holes, the enigmatic ...

Near the crowded heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked out a dense, turbulent pocket of gas that ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages of our own solar system. However, most of these discoveries lie within our ...

The Milky Way's galactic center, obscured by interstellar dust and requiring radio astronomy for observation, was first identified in 1974 as an intense sub-arcsecond radio source by astronomers Bruce ...

New results indicate that star formation in our galaxy radiated out from its core as young stars drifted apart. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

On Thursday, designer Matt Webb unveiled a new iPhone app called Galactic Compass, which always points to the center of the Milky Way galaxy—no matter where Earth is positioned on our journey through ...

We live in the inner rim of one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms, a shimmery curve against inky darkness. Travel for thousands of light-years in one direction, past countless stars, countless planets, ...