At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way ...

This discovery is particularly significant as the galaxy's mass closely resembles what the Milky Way's mass might have been during the same stage of its formation. This galaxy, which is named the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has spotted a distant galaxy which gives a peek at what the Milky Way might have looked like in its infancy. The galaxy, named Firefly Sparkle due to its ...

And it looks a lot like our galaxy, the Milky Way. "The extraordinary images—taken with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope—show a galaxy that glitters with 10 distinct star clusters that ...

NASA Webb unveils Firefly Sparkle galaxy, 600M years post-Big Bang. Firefly Sparkle mirrors Milky Way's early development. Rare gravitational lensing aids in high-resolution discovery.

In Odd Galaxy, NASA's Webb Finds Potential Missing ... 26, 2024 — Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most ...

Astronomers have made a startling discovery of cosmic channels that connect our solar system to far-off stars, reshaping our ...

Listen to Story Firefly Sparkle's mass aligns with expectations for a precursor to our own galaxy It is 10,000 times less massive than the current Milky Way. The name "Firefly Sparkle" was inspired by ...