In a landmark discovery, astronomers have confirmed the existence of a solitary stellar-mass black hole—an object with ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass." The galaxy spans more than 60,000 light-years across and contains over 100 ...

A Milky Way Twin in the Early Universe Among these new findings is Zhúlóng, the most distant spiral galaxy candidate identified to date, seen at a redshift of 5.2 -- just 1 billion years after ...

Given its recognizable features and impressive size, the researchers have dubbed this galaxy the most distant Milky Way "twin" ever observed. The detection of such a fully formed spiral galaxy so ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass." Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size, and stellar mass," she adds. Its disk spans over 60,000 light-years, comparable to our own galaxy ...

The SMC remains one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. This proximity allowed the research team to identify and track approximately 7,000 massive stars within the galaxy. These stars ...

Among these was the Milky Way, the galaxy which is home to billions of stars including our own Sun and the planet we all live on. This is our galaxy, there may be many like it, but this one is ours.

Related: One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way is hiding a second galaxy behind it, new research reveals Yet despite the SMC’s proximity to us, the galaxy's relatively small size and the ...