New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...

New research suggests that the heart of the Milky Way may be dominated by a dense clump of dark matter rather than the ...

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...

Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...

A vast, flat sheet of dark matter may solve the long-standing mystery of why our neighboring galaxy Andromeda is speeding ...

Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...

Scientists are mapping the Milky Way galaxy’s invisible magnetic field, revealing how it holds the galaxy together and ...

New radio observations of the Milky Way are exposing hidden patterns in its magnetic field. People have scanned the night sky ...

If the pulsar is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the space-time around the galaxy’s central supermassive black hole ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan Canada's Carney fires back at Trump after Davos speech ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan Canada's Carney fires back at Trump after Davos speech ...

It is easy to observe when stars explode in a supernova and become a black hole. It is different when they simply collapse.