The Milky Way is home to hundreds of billions of stars arranged in a glorious spiral pattern. But beyond the obvious spiral, ...

Radio telescopes beneath the Milky Way. Astronomers have discovered a mysterious radio source in our galaxy that has been ...

Scientists suspect a black hole lurks at the center of most galaxies. The Milky Way’s black hole is called Sagittarius A*. (A* is scientist-code for “A-star.”) Its gravity, or attractive force, is so ...

Near the centre of the Milky Way, a swarm of stars hurtles around a supermassive black hole at extraordinary speeds. Studying them could be the key to understanding our galaxy ...

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Credit: The EAGLE project/Durham University Galaxy simulations suggest the Milky Way offers some of the universe’s best ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, according to new research. Cosmologists at Durham University used a new technique ...

We are not alone—at least as a galaxy. About 50 dwarf galaxies surround the Milky Way. But when its intense gravity inevitably draws them to venture too close, they will probably be annihilated. It’s ...

It lurks inside a galaxy cluster — a huge group of galaxies bound together by gravity — and that cluster is in the throes of ...