Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the first time, which rise and fall like the inside of a lava lamp. The massive hot gas bubbles ...

Equipped with new data, astronomers hoped to make better sense of the Fermi Bubbles, a giant pair of high-energy blobs that appear to originate from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. But ...

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The center of the Milky Way is a busy place. The galaxy's core is bustling with a supermassive black hole, the birth of thousands of stars, and their explosive deaths. And now, a team of astronomers ...

Farhad Yusef-Zadeh was observing the center of the Milky Way galaxy in radio waves, looking for the presence of faint stars, when he saw it: a spindly structure giving off its own radio emissions. The ...

Newly discovered lobes stretch tens of thousands of light-years above and below the Milky Way's disk. Where did they come from? On a clear night, away from city lights, you might see a beautiful ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers spotted giant bubbles on the surface of a huge red-giant star, showing for the first ...

Newly discovered lobes stretch tens of thousands of light-years above and below the Milky Way's disk. Where they come from remains a mystery On a clear night, away from city lights, you might see a ...