01 January 2020
Milky Way Owners’ Workshop Manual
... ‘Bok globule’, which looks a bit like a glowing caterpillar rampaging through a dust cloud! It is a shame that the Milky Way – the view into the plane of our galaxy – is invisible to most of the world’s populations because of light pollution...
31 October 2018
Black hole status of the Milky Way centre confirmed with striking new data
... adds further evidence to the long-standing assumption that the black hole residing in the centre of the Milky Way is supermassive. "This always was one of our dream projects but we did not dare to hope that it would...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
... relativity predicts, with an uncertainty of only 9 percent. This is the most precise test of general relativity outside the Milky Way to date. And this using just one galaxy!” continued Collett. Einstein’s theory is the leading theory to explain...
07 June 2019
First-ever image of cool gas disk surrounding Milky Way's black hole
... 26,000 light-years from Earth in the centre of our Milky Way. Although we cannot actually see it, its presence is inferred...the first-ever image of the cooler gas disk surrounding the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. Not only that, but it captured...
09 August 2019
Is the Milky Way's black hole waking up?
... of radio wave emission in 1931 that first drew astronomers attention to the invisible void that sits in the Milky Way's innermost region, 26,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. It would be over 40 years later...
25 May 2020
Clashing galaxies may have triggered Solar System formation says new study
... Sagittarius shape the structure and influenced the dynamics of how stars are moving in the Milky Way, it has also led to a build-up of the Milky Way,” says Carme Gallart, a co-author of the paper, also of the IAC. “It seems that an important...
