Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds (defined as velocities that ...

When trying to identify the nature of dark matter, sometimes it’s the things it doesn’t do that tell us the most, like turning the center of the Earth liquid. A new study has shown that if some models ...

A new theoretical model challenges the long-held belief that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central object, is a supermassive black hole. Researchers propose it could instead be a dense, horizonless ...

Lead author Valentina Crespi explained that this dense dark matter core could bend light so strongly that it creates a dark region in the centre. Astronomers have identified CDG-2, a faint galaxy in ...

A new study has proposed a surprising idea about the centre of our galaxy, challenging the long-held belief that a supermassive black hole exists there. Researchers suggest that a dense concentration ...

For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is the central anchor point for the galactic disk and its surrounding ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...