Astronomers tracing a string of strange radio bursts from the direction of the Milky Way’s center have zeroed in on GCRT J1745-3009, a rare and still poorly understood radio transient that flares ...

Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way, which contains the raw material from which stars and planets are made. Information from ...

The center of the Milky Way is an extreme place. In addition to housing our galaxy's supermassive black hole, it also ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming ...

What: Researchers report the possible discovery of a millisecond pulsar near the Galactic Center using data from the ...

New ALMA observations reveal a complex network of gas filaments in the Milky Way’s central 650 light-years, enabling detailed studies of star formation in extreme galactic conditions.

The center of our Milky Way galaxy is a mysterious place. Not only is it thousands of light-years away, it’s also cloaked in so much dust that most stars within are rendered invisible. Harvard ...

Using archived science verification data from the Hokupa’a/QUIRC Adaptive Optics system on Gemini North, a French/US team of astronomers led by Jean-Pierre Maillard of the Institut d’Astrophysique de ...

A detailed infrared view of the Galactic Center region of our Milky Way Galaxy. These infrared images are sensitive to the presently forming massive stars there as well as the emission from cool ...

The Milky Way may have had a second black hole at its heart between 10 billion and 10 million years ago—one that acted a bit like a star goalkeeper. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers ...

What can wandering black holes teach scientists about the formation and evolution of black holes throughout the universe? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in The Astrophysical ...

Time is running out to see the iconic band of stars that comprise the center of the Milky Way. Our galaxy is positively teeming with billions of billions of stars that routinely become bright and ...