Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Scientists have ... the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or, rather, the magnetic field around its ...

Standing beneath the Milky Way has always been a beautiful sight, if you were lucky enough to find dark skies on a dark night. But the revelation of recent advances in digital photography is that ...

The arc of the Milky Way is visible in the southwest right after sunset—if you’re under an inky black dark sky—and ... beginning to creep into the night sky. Oh, and there’s a bonus ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

For the more than 100,000 years, humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night ... sky. In 1924, Mount Stromlo Observatory, located outside Canberra, took over observing the Milky Way.

It was a grand sight to see, the Milky Way stretching across the sky behind Owachomo Bridge. It was a natural subject for the opening spread of "Our Vanishing Night" in the November 2008 National ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster ... from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way ...

Luckily, the Keck Observatory is not the only eye tracking the Milky Way’s black hole Other telescopes like Spitzer, Chandra, Swift and ALMA are also watching the night sky. Curating more data ...

The Milky Way got its name from the way it looks from the ground: like a streak of spilt milk across the sky. That hazy white band is made ... Way’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.