A broad band of interstellar dust (the ... bid to investigate star-forming regions near the Milky Way's heart. Early in 1974, they observed Sagittarius B2, a giant molecular cloud 390 light ...

Have you ever seen a big band of stars that stretches ... As such, they are confident about the existence of Sagittarius A* in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy. To discover more dark secrets ...

Simulation showing the drastic episodes of star formation produced by the approach and interaction of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy with the Milky Way 6,000, 2,000 and 1,000 billion years ago.

The Milky Way is one of billions of galaxies in the universe and home to our own solar system. It appears as a hazy band in the sky when viewed from Earth.

Seen in polarised light for the first time, the image above is of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way—or, rather, the magnetic field around its shadow.

The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A (asterisk), near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun.

The galactic centre area of the Milky Way in Sagittarius behind the grand old barn near home in ... [+] southern Alberta, on June 30, 2019. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via ...

instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C ...

A new study led by Emmanuel Mossoux confirms that a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way— Sagittarius A* — is more active. It supports earlier observations that the normally ...