Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
Astronomy: Black hole in satellite galaxy hurls stars into Milky Way
At the edge of the Milky Way, there are a surprising number of hyper-fast stars that originate from outside. They apparently ...
Unusual X-ray Flash in Large Magellanic Cloud Puzzles Astronomers
Rare X-ray flash XRT 200515 spotted in the Large Magellanic Cloud Scientists suggest a neutron star or magnetar as a possible source Future observations may reveal a new cosmic phenomenon ...
Breakthrough enables measurement of local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements
Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ...
This massive ‘bouquet’ is actually where stars have been born for 25 million years
A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...
AI Just Discovered a Hidden Cosmic Blast That Could Transform Astronomy
A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by ...
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Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...
A monster black hole in Large Magellanic Cloud is coming to collide with the Milky Way
Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...
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Gigantic star has gone through a rapid transformation and may explode
A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...
A recipe for baby stars: Just add fluffy molecular clouds
Dominant cosmological theories posit that stars are formed in molecular clouds that are sufficiently large and dense that it ...