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Researchers Dig Up Galactic Graveyard Of Milky Way's Dead Stars And Map It Out

by Tim Sweezy - Wed, Oct 12, 2022

Researchers have created a map of the Milky Way's ancient dead past, revealing the resting place of stars that have since passed away. In fact, the study unveiled a massive eerie graveyard that stretches three times the height of our own... Read more...

Check Out This Gas Bubble Circling A Supermassive Black Hole At A 'Mind-Blowing Velocity'

by Tim Sweezy - Fri, Sep 23, 2022

New research seems to indicate a giant gas bubble is circling the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Astronomers believe the hot bubble of gas is about the size of the planet Mercury, and makes a full lap around the black hole in just 70... Read more...

Hear The Haunting Sounds Of Starquakes In The Most Detailed Milky Way Probe Ever

by Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jun 14, 2022

The European Space Agency (ESA) released new data about the Milky Way that includes an eerie symphony of starquakes from its Gaia mission. ESA's Gaia mission is aimed at creating the most accurate and complete multi-dimensional map of the... Read more...

Astronomers Just Discovered A Ghost Blackhole That’s Roaming Our Milky Way

by Tim Sweezy - Sat, Jun 11, 2022

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope continues to deliver, by providing the first direct evidence of a lone black hole in interstellar space. Up until now, all black hole masses have been "inferred statistically", through interactions in binary... Read more...

A Trove Of Massive Black Holes Hiding In Plain Sight Is Blowing Astronomers’ Minds

by Tim Sweezy - Tue, May 31, 2022

Researchers led by a team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have detected a wealth of previously unnoticed supermassive black holes in dwarf galaxies. The new information could lend valuable insight into the origin story... Read more...

Astronomers Discover Slim Red Giant Stars With Mass Stolen By Celestial Neighbors

by Tim Sweezy - Fri, Apr 15, 2022

Astronomers have confirmed that some "red giant" stars in a binary system are being diminished by their voracious neighbors in a new research paper. The team of researchers from the University of Sydney says the finding is critical in... Read more...

A Giant Black Hole Ate A Chunk Of The Milky Way And Now Has Gas Bubbles

by Paul Lilly - Thu, Mar 10, 2022

What happens when the universe gets indigestion? Massive bubbles form at the middle of the Milky Way, and then astronomers and scientists get to debate what it all means. They've been doing exactly that when, in 2020, the X-ray telescope... Read more...

VLTI Space Telescope Zooms Deep Into The Milky Way And Here's What It Saw

by Tim Sweezy - Wed, Dec 15, 2021

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (ESO's VLTI) has peered where no telescope looked before and gathered the sharpest images of the region around the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky... Read more...

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