The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is currently merging with the Milky Way and M54 is its remaining core. The Sagittarius streams are incredibly useful for analyzing the dwarf’s orbit and ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

Gravity is pulling more than just stars together - it’s dragging entire galaxies into violent encounters. The Milky Way is currently absorbing the much smaller Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, and the ...

The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way’s spiral disk. New research by Harvard astronomers shows that half of th… ...

More information: Shouzhi Wang et al, The structural and kinematical properties of NGC 5634, a globular cluster associated with the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy?, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv ...

But so far, there have been only faint, sketchy hints of IMBHs residing in dwarf galaxies, and no direct evidence that they live in a galaxy like the Milky Way. In April, a team of researchers at the ...

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