Hypervelocity stars have, since the 1920s, been an important tool that allows astronomers to study the properties of the ...
Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called "sleeping giant," named Gaia BH3, has a mass that ...
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How Gaia revealed the Milky Way
On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its ...
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Milky Way origins may be wrong, and this study explains why
The Milky Way was once a textbook example of how a spiral galaxy should form and evolve. Now a wave of new observations and ...
The distance to one of the Milky Way's next-door neighbors, a satellite galaxy that orbits its outskirts, has been determined more accurately than ever before, astronomers announced today (March 6).
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