At the center of the Milky Way, there might lie a pulsar—a highly magnetized, spinning neutron star that formed from the dead ...
Researchers from Columbia University and Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program aimed at finding evidence of ...
However, there's another point in fermionic dark matter's favor. The Gaia spacecraft's map of the Milky Way – the most ...
Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its center but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark ...
Astronomers propose that an ultra-dense clump of exotic dark matter could be masquerading as the powerful object thought to ...
Confirming a pulsar star would enable unprecedented tests of General Relativity. Such a discovery would revolutionize physics ...
At the center of our galaxy, something incredibly heavy is pulling the strings. Stars ...
There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter?
The theory explains the violent dance of stars around the galactic center.
In the early 1960s, Dutch astronomer Adriaan Blaauw observed stars moving at unusually high speeds moving through the Milky ...
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. Jubett ...
The second reason is simple: location, location, location! The millisecond pulsar appears to be near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Sagittarius A* weighs ...