A new study suggests the Milky Way’s gamma-ray glow could be a dark matter signal shaped by ancient galactic mergers.

Most of these astrophysical monsters are stars with various behavioral issues, such as explosive supernovae or ridiculously ...

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy ...

A faint glow detected in the Milky Way could potentially be a footprint of dark matter ... It’s estimated that dark matter ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

For decades, astronomers have been vying to identify a source for a mysterious gamma-ray excess at the center of the Milky ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be resolved? Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious ...

Astronomers estimate that 100 million black holes roam among the stars in our Milky Way galaxy, but they have never conclusively identified an isolated black hole. Following six years of meticulous ...

(Nanowerk News) Is our home galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, a special place? A team of scientists started a journey to answer this question more than a decade ago. Commenced in 2013, the Satellites ...

Learn how many suns exist in the Milky Way and how to understand how many sun-like stars are out there could help us ...