The newly discovered black hole-driven jets extend over 7 megaparsecs or 23 million light-years.

Fast forward to today , and an unexplored Milky Way star cluster suggests that astronomers ... stars that can be hundreds of times wider than the sun and up to 1,000,000 times as luminous as ...

A graphic of the Milky Way galaxy, with the sun show below the galactic center. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt (SSC / Caltech) The star-filled center of the Andromeda galaxy, also known as ...

Astronomers have spotted an absolutely colossal cosmic chimney that stretches as far as 140 Milky Ways lined up side by side. These jumbo jets are being blasted from a supermassive black hole.

which has four million times the mass of the sun. Astronomers imaged the black hole for the first time in 2022. The core of the Milky Way is visible from approximately mid-February to October ...

The Andromeda galaxy, a near twin of our Milky Way, is barreling toward us at a staggering ... another eight billion years. By then the sun will have evolved past its red giant stage, cooked ...

In comparison, the sun orbits around the Milky Way at a rate of 450,000 miles per hour (200 kilometers per second). If confirmed, the object would be the first known “hypervelocity” very low ...

There are tons of spots across the UK where you can see the Milky Way, and shooting stars from a double meteor shower, this month. But The Sun has narrowed these down to just 9 locations.

With a radius about 764 times that of the Sun, it’s one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye. Meet KW Sagittarii, the 10th largest star in the Milky Way. With a radius 100 times bigger ...

The Milky Way is just one of more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe – but it’s the one that we call home. Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter ...

An unusual pair of 10-billion-year-old stars, formed when the Milky Way was young ... This particular star is roughly half the mass of our sun and is located near the bottom of the white dwarf ...