Astronomers see no stars ejected from the center of our Milky Way galaxy, giving them important information about the Sgr A* black hole.

Astronomers have discovered the most pristine star ever observed, offering insights into the universe's earliest moments and ...

Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ...

HD 140283, better known as the Methuselah star, is around 200 light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra. It is ...

Astrophysicists believe that dark matter is concentrated in a halo shape around a galaxy. Its local density within the solar system is thought to be much less than 85% of that in the overall universe.

The gravitational lensing that causes this rare phenomenon cannot be explained solely by looking at observable ...

Astronomers have observed a primeval star that they believe to be the most “pristine” object in the universe. A team led by ...

Now, astronomers have found a star that may be as close as we’ve ever come to witnessing one of the primordial stars. Known ...

Astronomers have discovered a primeval but the most pristine star ever found in the universe. According to a research team ...

Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and her team have posted a new paper to the arXiv preprint server ...

Researchers have found a suspected clump of dark matter lurking within the luminous halo of a well-known "Einstein ring." The ...

The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...