Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Galaxy filaments are the largest known structures in the universe containing galaxies with mixed stellar population types and ...

How supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centers of galaxies accrete material, how they feed back into the surrounding ...

Behold, the stringy, rainbowesque melange of one-dimensional structures hidden in plain sight across the galactic center. Or should we say plane sight? The tendrils measure 5 to 150 light-years in ...

Astronomers have discovered a huge filament of hot gas bridging four galaxy clusters. At 10 times as massive as our galaxy, the thread could contain some of the universe's 'missing' matter, addressing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have zoomed in on the area surrounding the supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy, and made a ...

ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has revealed three massive filaments of hot gas flowing towards a cluster of galaxies, uncovering a portion of the cosmic skeleton that pervades the entire Universe.

The Central Molecular Zone, spanning 700 light-years across the heart of the galaxy, contains a majority of the dense gas in the Milky Way. While analyzing this region with the Atacama Large ...

In context: The supermassive black hole known as Sagittarius A* lies at the center of the Milky Way, roughly 27,000 light years from Earth. The whole galaxy's activity is influenced by this monstrous ...

The centre of our galaxy is full of hundreds of strange threads of hot gas, which may have formed due to an outburst from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s resident supermassive black hole. Farhad Yusef ...

Filaments of radio energy from Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, are turning astronomers’ heads. By Dennis Overbye Astronomers have detected a new set of whiskers ...