There's no denying that something massive lurks at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, but a new study asks whether a ...

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Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

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 ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of civilizations beyond Earth, have published new results from the Breakthrough ...

Near the crowded heart of the Milky Way, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked out a dense, turbulent pocket of gas that behaves like a hidden factory for newborn suns. By resolving this ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...

Using archived science verification data from the Hokupa’a/QUIRC Adaptive Optics system on Gemini North, a French/US team of astronomers led by Jean-Pierre Maillard of the Institut d’Astrophysique de ...

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?

A detailed infrared view of the Galactic Center region of our Milky Way Galaxy. These infrared images are sensitive to the presently forming massive stars there as well as the emission from cool ...

A view of the center of our galaxy shows the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, where cold dust (magenta) and warmer gas and dust (cyan) surround a cluster of massive stars. The stars generate high-speed ...

Dark matter particle and antiparticle collisions could make some stars immortal. I am still seeing recent studies on this topic—certainly ones newer than 7 years ago, when the article linked was ...