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04 Jun 2021

NASA releases amazing picture of Milky Way's super-energised 'downtown'

This busy, high-energy galactic center is 26,000 light years away A NASA scientist explained that there are a lot of supernova remnants, black holes, and neutron stars there

23 Apr 2021

Scientists discover smallest black hole in Milky Way galaxy

Smallest known black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. Blackhole is roughly three times the mass of our sun. Black holes form when massive stars die and their cores collapse.

01 Dec 2020

Earth just got 2000 light-years closer to black hole at centre of our galaxy

Did you know that Earth just got 7 km/s faster and about 2000 light-years closer to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy? Here's what it means.

25 May 2020

Researchers find out flickers coming from center of Milky Way

Astronomers also believe that a supermassive black hole with a mass of 4 million suns is located at the center of Sagittarius A*.

05 Apr 2018

Heart of Milky Way may host thousands of black holes: Study

There may be tens of thousands of black holes at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, say scientists who have discovered a dozen of them, lending support to a decades-old prediction.

22 Feb 2017

NASA's Fermi detects evidence of dark matter in Andromeda galaxy

The gamma-ray signal detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is similar to one seen by Fermi at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy.

09 Feb 2017

NASA's Chandra satellite detects galactic X-rays, hinting at existence of dark matter

Scientists claimed that a small but distinctive X-ray signal detected from the Milky Way galaxy by NASA's Chandra satellite may help prove the existence of dark matter.

30 Aug 2016

Milky Way underwent furious explosion six million years ago

The bubble required a tremendous amount of energy.

Steller void in Milky Way

06 Aug 2016

A stellar desert found in our Milky Way Galaxy!

A vast expense of space near the center of Milky Way Galaxy- called the inner disk- is completely devoid of stars. Recently, an international team of researchers identified a huge gaseous void that extends for 8000 light years from the galactic core. They named this desolate region as stellar void and claimed that it hasn't produced any new stars in hundreds of millions of years.

Milky Way Galaxy

26 Jul 2016

Milky Way's hot gaseous Halo spins like a disk!

Halo is spinning at about 400,000 mph and the disk moves at 540,000 mph.

18 Jun 2016

NASA's Hubble captures colorful, star-studded view of Milky Way galaxy!

The US space agency NASA recently released a beautiful image of colorful and star-studded view of the Milky Way galaxy.

light pollution

13 Jun 2016

A map that measures light pollution intensity worldwide

Too much of light pollution can have serious consequences for human, animals and our environment.

11 Jun 2016

Light pollution hinders Milky Way view from one-third of humanity: Study

In developed nations, the 24* 7 use of artificial lights creates a permanent skyglow at night, restricting our view of the stars.

International Space Station

18 May 2016

Stunning view of Earth's night lights captured from space – See pic!

The stunning view was taken when ISS was passing over the island nation of Kiribati at the time, about 2600 kilometers (1,600 miles) south of Hawaii.

22 Apr 2016

A 'purple nebula' in honor of Prince: NASA's tribute to pop icon- See pic!

NASA released this image following the announcement that the pop music superstar had died at the age of 57 in Minnesota.

03 Mar 2016

Repeat radio bursts from mysterious cosmic source detected

The finding suggests that these bursts must have come from a very exotic object, such as a rotating neutron star having unprecedented power that enables the emission of extremely bright pulses, the researchers said.

22 Dec 2015

NASA's Chandra Observatory discovers incredible galactic tail

The pressure exerted by this rapid motion caused gas to be stripped away from the galaxy.

12 Nov 2015

Oldest stars in universe found near Milky Way centre

The discovery and analysis of the nine pure stars challenges current theories about the environment of the early universe from which these stars formed.

06 Nov 2015

Hubble discovers clues to how Milky Way was formed

This is how our galaxy, Milky Way was formed.

29 Oct 2015

New Milky Way component discovered

The centre of the Milky Way galaxy, a region previously thought to consist of vast numbers of old stars, actually has young stars.

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