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James Webb Space Telescope watches our Milky Way galaxy's monster black hole fire out a flare

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...
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Dusty objects follow stable orbits around Milky Way’s supermassive black hole: Study

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Astronomers reveal 400 sibling star clusters in the Milky Way

New mapping of the Milky Way has uncovered a vast family tree of stellar siblings, revealing that hundreds of star clusters ...
ZME Science on MSN

AI Just Helped Scientists Simulate Every Star in the Milky Way—All 100 Billion of Them

Using artificial intelligence, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences, ...

Dark Matter finally found? Scientists have spotted a strange ray at the center of our galaxy that may change Physics forever

NASA's Fermi telescope may have detected the first direct hint of dark matter, observing an unusual gamma-ray glow near the ...

The Totally Insane, Highly Improbable, But Not At All Impossible Quest to Build a Warp Drive

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
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Have We Finally "Seen" Dark Matter? Galactic Gamma-Ray Halo May Be First Direct Evidence Of Universe’s Invisible "Glue"

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...
Scientific American

Here’s How to Get High-Resolution Views of Other Stars

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Stars defy black hole by showing stable orbits around Sagittarius A*

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

To Escape Extinction, We Need to Achieve Warp Speed. New Scientific Breakthroughs Suggest It’s Possible.

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...

How will the universe end?

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make ...
Delco Times

Astronomers Notebook: A third interstellar interloper is passing by

3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...