Two major astronomy research programs, called EMU and PEGASUS, have joined forces to resolve one of the mysteries of our Milky Way: Where are all the supernova remnants? A supernova remnant is an expanding cloud of gas and dust marking the last phase in the life of a star, after it has exploded as a ...
The first map of the “galactic underworld” — a chart of the corpses of once massive suns that have since collapsed into black holes and neutron stars — has revealed a graveyard that stretches three times the height of the Milky Way and that almost a third of the objects have been flung out from ...
Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants, which are thought to reside at the center of most galaxies. The ...
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, which means that it is composed, among other components, of a disc of stars, gas, and dust in which the spiral arms are contained. At first, it was thought that the disc was completely flat, but for some decades now it has been known that the outermost part ...
The Breakthrough Listen Initiative released data from the most comprehensive survey yet of radio emissions from the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy and the region around its central black hole, and it is inviting the public to search the data for signals from intelligent civilizations. At a media briefing in Seattle as part of ...
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