Something Unusual Is Swirling around the Monster Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy

Gas swirling around the center of our Galaxy. The animation shows the gas at different infrared wavelengths, demonstrating ...

The ELT can probe ultra-diffuse galaxies and their dark matter mysteries

We've been waiting a long time for the Extremely Large Telescope's first light, scheduled for March 2029. Telescopes this ...

A stellar odd couple at an unusual stage of evolution

Most of the stars in the Milky Way are what we might call normal stars. They're main sequence stars like our sun, meaning they're doing what most people probably think stars do: shining as they fuse ...
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Milky Way's BlackHole - May Be Spinning Football-Shaped Spacetime Warp

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

Tiny galaxies lose most of their oxygen. No one knows where it goes.

NGC 4449, a dwarf galaxy, was one of 37 included in the Galaxies Losing Oxygen via Winds study. Credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble ...
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4 million times the Sun’s mass: Inside Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole

Somewhere in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, about twenty-five thousand light-years away, sits the anchor of ...
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NASA's Hubble Telescope identifies dwarf galaxies with a missing oxygen problem—but where did it go?

Earth have between just 4% and 25% of the oxygen that their stars are known to have produced. Scientists are not sure where ...