Astronomers have found that both the core of our Milky Way and the earliest proto-galaxies in the universe share a surprising ...

Recent observations from April of the galactic center have revealed that parts of the infalling gas cloud, which was detected in 2011, have already swung past the black hole at the heart of our Milky ...

Astronomers have presented new observations of the gas cloud G2 in the galactic center originally discovered in 2011. These data are in remarkably good agreement with an on-going tidal disruption. As ...

It’s the mystery of the curiously dense cloud. And astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena are on the case. Near the crowded galactic center, where billowing clouds ...

Astronomers have found a cloud of gas and dust around a young star being devoured by the giant black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy — a find that suggests planets can form in galactic cores ...

A novel experiment, known as CLOUD (Cosmics Leaving OUtdoor Droplets), begins taking its first data today with a prototype detector in a particle beam at CERN , the world's largest laboratory for ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud — a small galaxy the orbits the Milky Way at a distance of about 160,000 light years — seems to have swallowed up an even smaller galaxy sometime in the cosmic past. In a ...

A supermassive black hole with a mass four million times that of the Sun lies at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy. It is orbited by a small group of bright stars and, in addition, an enigmatic dusty ...