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

The center of the Milky Way galaxy captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA, JPL-Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC/Caltech) et al. The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a ...

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to find evidence our Milky Way Galaxy is embedded in an enormous halo of hot gas that extends for hundreds of thousands of light years. The ...

New research finds dark matter in the Milky Way is unevenly distributed, supporting its role as a possible source of the galaxy's central gamma ray excess.

For years, astronomers have predicted a dramatic fate for our galaxy: a head-on collision with Andromeda, our nearest large galactic neighbor. This merger—expected in about 5 billion years—has become ...

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

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.

A mysterious glow of gamma rays from the centre of the Milky Way has reignited debate over dark matter. The unexplained ...

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New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

New research from Johns Hopkins University and an international team of scientists suggests that two competing theories for ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...