Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the Chandra team.

Possible dark galaxy discovered near Milky Way Emits no visible light, made of hydrogen and dark matter Detected using Green Bank Telescope and VLA ...

Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

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Using infrared images captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral shape is mainly made up of just two major arms extending from a central bar ...

And very similar to the Milky Way, Zhulong shows a central thickening of older stars, surrounded by a flat disc with spiral arms in which new stars are being formed. According to Mengyuan Xiao ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, ...

The lone black hole without a companion star is located 5,000 light-years away. A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole that has no star orbiting it in the Milky Way ...

The team concluded that many more stars in the Milky Way galaxy might be home to planets that could support life. There are approximately 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way. Because ...

A team of scientists has confirmed the existence of a solitary black hole drifting through the Milky Way, unaccompanied by any orbiting star. The finding, published in the Astrophysical Journal marks ...