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Earth rotates, the Sun rotates, the Milky Way rotates – and a new model suggests the entire Universe could be rotating.
ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...
The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our galaxy's "black hole heart." Credit: ESO ...
The James Webb Space Telescope reveals turbulent environments found in Sagittarius C, a core part of our Milky Way galaxy.
A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at ...
ALMA has revealed evidence of a new type of slim, filamentary structure that drives cycles of depletion and replenishment. At ...
A new trail in this southern Arizona city plots the most visitor-friendly astronomy stops—and there are plenty to choose from ...
Can scientists build a detector of near-Earth objects that would sense gravitational waves produced by any "dark" objects ...
New JWST research unveils the surprising influence of strong magnetic fields on star formation within the Milky Way's central ...
When I was a kid, I was fascinated by the Powers of 10 video, which came out in the 1970s. Perhaps you remember it, with the narrator taking us both outward toward the fathomless end of the Universe ...
This paper reports the discovery of a high-velocity star J07 ejected from globular cluster M15 approximately 21 million years ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...