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Black hole image supports Einstein's theory of gravity, disappointing scientists who are probing for cracks
Researchers captured the first image of our galaxy's supermassive black hole. It could help confirm…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Meet the black hole at the center of our galaxy: Scientists just took its picture for the first time
Researchers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of our gal…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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Scientists might reveal the first photo of our galaxy's central black hole on Thursday. Watch their announcement live.
Seven research institutions are holding simultaneous press conferences to announce what's being bil…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Rare doughnut-shaped galaxy — a ‘cosmic ring of fire' — is making baby stars 50 times faster than the Milky Way
Astronomers have spotted a ‘cosmic ring of fire’ making stars 50 times faster than the Milky Way — …
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The best candidate for an Earth-like planet is also the farthest one detected yet — and it has a Guinness World Record to prove it
There’s only a handful of planets that fit the profile of being a potential second-home for …
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Supermassive black hole traps six galaxies in a 'spider web' that is 300 times bigger than the Milky Way
This is the first time that such a large number of galaxies have been spotted so close to …
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New stars running from the death of their own galaxies means our Milky Way might survive
These stars are migrant refugees fleeing from their own dwarf galaxies — known as Magellanic Clo…
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The Milky Way gobbled up another galaxy 11.5 billion years ago — and it could provide clues to why the galaxy is twisted up in a spiral shape
The Milky Way gobbled up a dwarf galaxy Gaia Enceladus between 11.6 to 13.2 billion years ago and t…
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Supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is beating faster than ever before
However, an increasing number of studies are pointing to the possibility that this may no long…
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Bubbles filled with thousands of stars found in the Milky Way
The size of these bubbles is decided by the wind and radiation coming from the young and massi…
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We live next to the largest gas cloud in the Milky Way — and it's giving birth to new stars
A new 3D map of the Milky Way reveals that we live next to the largest gas cloud in the galaxy. …
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A black hole spewed out material equivalent to 500 Empire State Buildings at nearly the speed of light — and NASA caught it on video
This black hole and its companion star make up the system called MAXI J1820+070 located within t…
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Astronomers discovered a 'spooky' spinning object in our galactic backyard, emitting some of the strongest radio beams in the sky
Radio telescopes are detecting more mysterious signals. They switch on and off and don't match any …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Unknown objects at the heart of the Milky Way are beaming radio signals, then mysteriously disappearing
Radio waves bursting from the center of the Milky Way, then disappearing, might reveal a new type o…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Kepler estimates there are at least 300 million potentially habitable planets within the Milky Way galaxy
The search for life beyond Earth and the scope of one day settling down on another planet is someth…
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Stars are being born next to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole in a stunning new image by the world's largest airborne telescope
The world's largest airborne telescope — the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFI…
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Mysterious radio waves are radiating from an unknown object at the heart of the Milky Way, astronomers say
The signal appeared near the center of the galaxy. It was strong for most of 2020, but then it sudd…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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It took one massive telescope 130 hours to capture tens of thousands of galaxies in a single image
Radio telescopes, on the other hand, can see through the dust and record observations of t…
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Andrea Ghez is the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics — found the first signs of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
“Both doubt and excitement, that feeling of being at the frontier of research where you always…
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10 winners of a Milky Way photo contest show our galaxy lighting up the sky
The travel photography blog Capture the Atlas recently highlighted 25 images that represent this ph…