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You’ve Seen the New Image of the Milky Way’s Black Hole – Now Hear It!
By Chandra X-ray Observatory
May 15, 2022This is a sonification — translation into sound — of the latest image from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way called Sagittarius A*…
Discovery in Milky Way shows a potential life-supporting planet orbiting dying
Discovery in Milky Way shows a potential life-supporting planet orbiting dying sun WKRC TV CincinnatiPlanetary Bodies – Where Water and Life Could Exist – Observed for First Time in Habitable Zone of Dead Star SciTechDailyScientists…
Black Hole at Center of Milky Way Is Unpredictable and Chaotic – Mysterious
Artist’s concept illustration of a supermassive black hole emitting an x-ray jet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andrés, has found that the <span…
The Milky Way May Have Just Lost a Whole Bunch of Satellite Galaxies
The space around the Milky Way isn't vacant. It's swarming with dwarf galaxies – small, faint, and low in mass, with as few as around 1,000 stars each.This is not unusual. We know from our observations of other large galaxies that dwarf…
Strange Black Hole Discovered in Milky Way With a Huge Warp in Its Accretion
Black hole with warped disc. Credit: John Paice
An international team of astrophysicists from South Africa, the UK, France and the US have found large variations in the brightness of light seen from around one of the closest black holes…
Milky Way is being ‘twisted and deformed’ after a collision with another galaxy,
The Milky Way has been left disturbed by a collision with another, smaller galaxy, scientists say.Some 700 million years ago – relatively recent, by the standards of the universe – the Milky Way suffered a crash that has left a…
Astronomers unveil most detailed 3D map yet of Milky Way | Science
Astronomers have unveiled the most precise 3D map yet of the Milky Way, an achievement that promises to shed fresh light on the workings of the galaxy and the mysteries of the broader universe.
The vast electronic atlas was compiled…
‘Family Tree’ of The Milky Way Reveals The Fate of The Mysterious Kraken Galaxy
The Milky Way has collided and merged with multiple other galaxies over its long lifespan, but piecing together its history has been a painstaking task.A new analysis of dense star clusters orbiting the Milky Way has now given us the…
Burst of radio waves in Milky Way probably came from neutron star | Science
For more than a decade, astronomers have puzzled over the origins of mysterious and fleeting bursts of radio waves that arrive from faraway galaxies.
Now, scientists have discovered the first such blast in the Milky Way and traced it…