NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory helped diagnose the cause behind a large kink in a huge filament near the center of the ...

Sagittarius C, a turbulent region near the Milky Way’s center, is glowing with hot plasma and threaded by magnetic fields, ...

A remarkable new study using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered shocking details about a star-forming region ...

NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret: a ravenous black hole at its ...

A sonification of the Milky Way galaxy's core has been turned into sheet music. Find out how it was done. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

Stargazers accustomed to scanning the Milky Way galaxy may notice something odd overhead this month: barely any milk in that way.

Located in the constellation Sagittarius, some 26,000 light-years from the Earth, the Snake is a 230 light-year-long "Galactic Center Filament." The team examined the Snake not with a hospital X ...

The Lagoon: Located about 4000 light-years away, the Lagoon Nebula is an incredible 55 light-years wide and 20 light-years tall. This stunning nebula was first catalogued by Italian astronomer ...

fountaining gas much farther from the galactic center than expected—about five times farther, the team found. "We think that, once we go farther away from the galaxy, we recover all of the ...

The star-rich region around the galactic center provides an ideal hunting ground for solitary black holes passing in front of stars. Sahu hopes to find additional lone black holes by using the ...

In our work, we studied what would happen if these light dark matter particles came in contact with their own antiparticles in the galactic center and annihilated each other, producing electrons ...