In this artist’s impression, the galactic disk warp “dances gracefully” under the torsion of the dark matter halo. Credit: Hou Kaiyuan and Dong Zhanxun of the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University An international team has developed a “motion-picture” method to measure the precession rate of the Milky Way’s disk curvature. Using a sample … Read more
Meteors along the Milky Way in the sky on August 5, 2021 in Porma Lake, Leon, Spain. (Photo by … [+] Samuel de Roman/Getty Images) Getty Images July is packed with celestial events for stargazers, from the breathtaking view of the Milky Way in the first week, to a beautiful crescent moon lighting up the … Read more
The position of a newly found dwarf galaxy (Virgo III) in the constellation Virgo (left) and its members (right; the stars circled in white). The member stars are concentrated within the dotted line in the right panel. Credit: NAOJ/Tohoku University For years, astronomers have worried about how to explain why the Milky Way has fewer … Read more
“All good things must come to an end.” That saying applies both in the cosmos and on Earth. We know that stars, like everything else, must die. When they run out of the fuel needed for nuclear fusion in their cores, stars of all sizes collapse under their own gravity and die, forming a dense … Read more
Scientists have discovered that unusually large black holes appear to be absent from the Milky Way’s diffuse outer halo. The discovery could spell bad news for theories that suggest the most mysterious form of “stuff” in the universe, dark matter, consists of primordial black holes that formed in the first moments after the Big Bang. … Read more
The monster black hole The center of our Milky Way can unleash huge, gaseous explosions – and now astronomers think they’ve found the exact spot where that superheated gas flows into the Milky Way. Acting as a giant exhaust vent, the newly discovered feature is a bright region of X-ray energy located nearly 700 light-years … Read more
The dark abyss of space is seemingly endless to explore. There are countless celestial bodies floating in this dark ocean of space. For centuries, scientists and astronomers have classified various objects into lists and categories. This time, however, a team of researchers has discovered an object at the center of the Milky Way that does … Read more
A special cluster of stars swirling around the violent center of the Milky Way could become “immortal” by continually capturing and destroying dark matter particles in their cores, a new study suggests. Researchers discovered this using computer simulations of stellar evolution dark matter particles captured by the gravity of these stars can often collide and … Read more
By Stacy Liberatore for Dailymail.com 5:40 PM June 18, 2024, updated 10:16 PM June 18, 2024 Scientists have discovered a mysterious object at the center of our Milky Way that doesn’t meet the criteria of anything else in the Milky Way. The team found that the object emits microwaves, indicating that it contains dust and … Read more
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived bursts of radio waves originating from outside the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just thousandths of a second as it takes the Sun three days to emit. However, despite their power and the fact that up to 10,000 FRBs can erupt in … Read more