Astronomers may finally understand why planets orbiting two suns, the real-world equivalents of the "Star Wars" planet ...

Scientists hope to probe the nature of general relativity through a possible pulsar found in the center of the Milky Way, ...

What if the Milky Way’s central “black hole” isn’t a black hole at all? A new model proposes that an ultra-dense dark matter core could mimic its gravitational pull.

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

The second reason is simple: location, location, location! The millisecond pulsar appears to be near Sagittarius A*, the ...

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

Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a beautiful barred spiral galaxy, but we will never see what it looks like from the outside. It is too big, and we are too deeply inside it. This limitation results in ...

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Astronomers have identified the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way galaxy. This black hole was spotted in data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission because it ...

Sagittarius A* may be a dense dark matter core instead of a black hole, offering a new explanation for the Milky Way’s central gravity.