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This star, which is close to the giant black hole of the Milky Way, is hurtling at 8,000 km/s!
Here, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is marked with a black cross. The colored lines show the supposed orbits of some stars…
This is what the activity of the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way would look like
A new technique to account for the rapid flickering of heated, bright matter falling on the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has sorted out several accretion models for this compact…
Milky Way black hole: this is what Sgr A* activity would look like
A new technique to account for the rapid flickering of heated, bright matter falling on the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has sorted out several accretion models for this compact…
Gaia has flushed out hundreds of thousands of double stars in the Milky Way
Monday, June 13, the latest Gaia catalog was unveiled, and with it many new revelations. Among them, an astronomical amount of binary systems has been detailed, showing their number much…
We’re starting to detect wandering black holes hurtling through the Milky Way
The stars over 8 masses will not end in white dwarf but exploding supernovae SNII. Those with masses greater than 20/30 solar masses should not eject enough matter in the…
The history of the Milky Way can be read in the new maps of Gaia
This map shows the metallicities of stars in the Milky Way as measured by the Gaia mission. Red stars are the richest in metals. The blue stars, the poorest in…
There are 4 hostile extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way that could invade Earth, according to this researcher
We know now, the Milky Way home to billions of planets. Among them, many are potentially habitable. But what we still don’t know is how many are actually inhabited? And…
Stars in distant galaxies are more massive than those in the Milky Way
In the early 1930s, the brilliant physicist Paul Diracone of the founders of the Quantum mechanicswhich allowed him to theoretically discover the existence of antimatter, had advised the very young…
How to photograph the Milky Way?
It can be admired on starry nights, when there is very little light pollution. It looks like a milky road that crosses the sky, hence its name: the Milky Way.…
Stars dancing with black holes in the Milky Way
Just recently a joint press release from European Southern Observatory (ESO) and theEvent Horizon Telescope (EHT) has announced that on May 12, 2022 there will be an online conference, at…