Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before
Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...
First-ever detection of a mid-infrared flare in Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive massive black hole
Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever ...
Gravitational waves could give us insights into fast radio bursts
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are mysterious pulses of energy that can last from a fraction of a millisecond to about three ...
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Quasar Spotted in the Milky Way!
The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered something extraordinary: a quasar within the Milky Way! This video unpacks the ...
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Milky Way: Icy observatory reveals 'ghost particles'
The blurry, extraordinary image is of the Milky Way, but it is composed of the "ghostly ... "We've seen it in many wavelengths of light - like radio waves and gamma rays - but since the dawn ...
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See The Gigantic New Map Of The Milky Way That Took 13 Years To Make
This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... [+] detailed infrared map ever of our galaxy. Here we see, from left to right and top to bottom ...
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When Will The Milky Way Smash Into The Andromeda Galaxy? It May Already Be Underway, Say Scientists
This illustration shows a stage in the predicted merger between our Milky Way galaxy and the ... [+] neighboring Andromeda galaxy, as it will unfold over the next several billion years.