The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields ...

Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core ... massive stars, black holes and neutron stars. However, none fully explain the ...

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The black hole theory is only one potential explanation for why most galaxies appear to rotate clockwise. The other is that the Milky Way's rotational velocity is affecting the measurements.

Brunier Supported by By Katrina Miller From ancient star streams to the innards of white dwarfs ... and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture ...

The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black hole. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / S. Crowe "A big ...