Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...

Sgr A*, in turn, is dwarfed by some supermassive black holes detected in other large galaxies such as one with a mass 6.5 billion times greater than that of the sun in a galaxy called Messier 87. That ...

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC ... That’s modest compared to Sagittarius A*’s 4,300,000 solar masses, but larger than ...

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...

According to the researchers, data on the trajectory of these stars indicates they were flung out of the Large Magellanic Cloud after a ... aside from the one called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* ...

An artist’s rendition of a hypervelocity star ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud by a supermassive ... hole has a much lower mass than others. Sagittarius A*, for example, has four million ...