Data from ESA's Gaia mission has been used to create an 3D animated view of the Milky Way galaxy's stellar nurseries. CREDIT ...

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 ...

The gas orbiting Sagittarius A (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, is rich in metals ...

The Milky Way’s central black hole could lose mass by powering escaping particles, and new calculations suggest how ...

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

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

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

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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 ...