Using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) MeerKAT telescope, Ian Heywood of the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and his colleagues mapped out broad regions in the centre ...

The ‘glow’ is in the form of gamma radiation and was spotted by scientists in data from NASA’s Fermi space telescope in 2009. (VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled by three mysterious signals coming from the centre of the Milky Way, a chaotic and violent place where Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole, sits. A study ...

Scientists have uncovered the origin of three mysterious signals coming from the centre of the Milky Way. For years, astronomers have struggled to understand the strange spikes of energy that blare ...

The Milky may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre, scientists claim. Until now, it has been widely believed that our galaxy contains both a supermassive black hole at its core and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, ...

The black hole appears to have a vestigial jet dating back thousands of years. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has not captured an image of the jet but has helped find evidence suggesting it is ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Something is keeping cosmic rays out of the centre of the galaxy. The Milky Way is suffused with a sea of high-energy particles spewed out by supernovae and other energetic astrophysical objects, but ...

Our Milky Way's halo of hot gas is warmer to the "south" than the "north" because of an internal combustion engine-like ...

The FINANCIAL — The black hole at the centre of our Galaxy not only flares irregularly from day to day but also in the long term. This is revealed by an analysis of 15 years of data by an ...