The lone black hole without a companion star is located 5,000 light-years away. A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole that has no star orbiting it in the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the central molecular zone (CMZ), a dense and chaotic region near the Milky Way’s core, ...

The team concluded that many more stars in the Milky Way galaxy might be home to planets that could support life. There are approximately 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way. Because ...

Using infrared images captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have found that the Milky Way’s graceful spiral shape is mainly made up of just two major arms extending from a central bar ...

Milwaukee, WI — Milky Way Tech Hub, a leading organization committed to building a tech ecosystem grounded in equity, is proud to announce that national law firm Husch Blackwell has joined as ...

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And very similar to the Milky Way, Zhulong shows a central thickening of older stars, surrounded by a flat disc with spiral arms in which new stars are being formed. According to Mengyuan Xiao ...