The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Learn how through a process known as molecular hydrogen cooling, stars may be able to form in dark matter halos under 10 ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

which helped them pinpoint the edge of our galaxy, at about 950,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way. “In many analyses of the Milky Way halo, its outer boundary is a fundamental ...

Although the galaxy is surrounded by a halo of X-ray-emitting gas needed ... what does this mean for the future of galaxies like our own Milky Way?” wondered Bagchi. This type of scenario ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will collide and explode in 23 billion years. The blast—were we around to ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light ... Adding to the enigma, the galaxy is surrounded by a vast halo of hot, X-ray-emitting gas, providing key ...

After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...