Scientists suspect lightweight dark matter might ionize hydrogen in the Milky Way’s core. This could also explain the 511-keV ...

For decades, scientists have been chasing one of the universe’s greatest mysteries: dark matter. Thought to make up about 85% ...

This is what makes observations of the galactic center so exciting, even though we’ve stared at this spot in the sky for decades now.” When the authors of the latest study observed the two ...

Balaji and co-authors went looking for an alternative. They also noted the frequent detection of 511 electron volt (eV) gamma ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbor. The research, published in January ...

The Solar System's journey around the Milky Way's center takes it through varying galactic environments. "Imagine it like a ship sailing through varying conditions at sea," explains Efrem Maconi ...