In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of ... of very faint objects, and its high-quality mirror allowed it to ...
Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...
going at ridiculously high speeds. It's as if the black hole basically hurled it out of the galaxy. Han and his ...
Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of our home Milky Way galaxy. It has a mass equal to billions of suns and has an accretion disk made up of gas and dust surrounding it ...
New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy ... together at high speeds, forming ...
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are ... or so to see if it's traveling on its expected, high-speed trajectory. If the star continued zooming ...