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Ancient Milky Way Merger
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (165+ words) miragenews.com This artist's concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between our Milky Way galaxy and a dwarf galaxy known as LKH that happened about 12 billion years ago. A study of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, recently published…...
A footnote about black holes set Garima Rajguru on a path across continents
3+ hour, 35+ min ago (604+ words) When Garima Rajguru was 8 or 9, a picture book about space had a footnote about black holes. “The only thing it said was that black holes are regions in space from where even light cannot escape,” she recalled. The explanation was…...
Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (17+ words) Beloit Daily News...
Milky Way's fastest star orbits our supermassive black hole so closely it feels its spin
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (610+ words) “Worldwide, Paranal is the only place where you can do this type of observations because no other observatory in the world has four 8-metre telescopes that can act together as an interferometer,” says co-author Frank Eisenhauer, GRAVITY+ Principal Investigator and…...
The Milky Way devoured a smaller galaxy about 11.8 billion years ago
2+ hour, 7+ min ago (539+ words) THE Milky Way, a large and spiral-shaped galaxy that is home to hundreds of billions of stars including our sun, has taken a long and complicated path to achieve its current dimensions, as illustrated by new research documenting a milestone…...
Fastest-known star zooms under Milky Way black hole’s influence
2+ hour, 51+ min ago (312+ words) WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Scientists have detected the fastest-known star, a stellar speedster that is zooming around the supermassive black hole residing at the center of our galaxy and might hold the key to measuring the spin of this celestial beast…...
Scientists find closest star to the Milky Way's central black hole
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (179+ words) Star, moving at 8% the speed of light, may let us measure the black hole’s rotation. So, without a new discovery, we’d either need to up our imaging game in order to get finer-scaled information about the orbits of the stars…...
The Fastest Star on Record Has Been Found Hurtling Past Our Galaxy's Black Hole
2+ hour, 9+ min ago (113+ words) In the extreme environment at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, things can get a little hinky....
Fastest star in the galaxy???will reveal black hole???s secrets???
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (12+ words) Fastest star in the galaxy ‘will reveal black hole’s secrets’ The Times...
This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (796+ words) This image traces the orbital paths of all known stars orbiting the massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. One of the stars, S301, approaches the black hole very closely. At its closest approach, the star travels…...