Long-held assumptions about what lies at the center of the Milky Way could be incorrect, as new international research ...

CSIC-INTA and using modelling techniques developed at the University of Oxford, has uncovered an unprecedented richness of small organic molecules in the deeply obscured nucleus of a nearby galaxy, ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery of X7 ...

This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...

The long, crisp nights of an Alberta winter provide more than just cold temperatures; they offer the perfect conditions for ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

According to their model, this dark matter would naturally form a two-part structure: an extremely dense central core ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

The Milky may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre, according to a bold new theory.

For decades, the motions of stars near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy have been treated as some of the clearest evidence ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

Scientists are observing the behavior of a supermassive black hole that is displaying exceptionally messy eating habits.