Silverman, Leah. "Astronomers Just Created The Most Detailed 3D-Map Of Our Galaxy Yet." AllThatsInteresting.com, November 14, ...
Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...
So it’s confession time: I’ve been lying to you. I’ve said on many occasions that our Milky Way galaxy has a flat disk (like ...
A century ago, a star in Andromeda named V1 launched a revolution in astronomy, revealing its true immensity and the origin ...
The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...
Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...