If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have at last identified what’s believed to be the edge of the Milky Way ...

Gaia has charted the cosmos since 2014, creating a vast encyclopedia of the positions and movements of celestial objects in our Milky Way and beyond. It is difficult to capture the breadth of ...

The galaxy’s compact size supports this idea — it looks like it’s only about 230 light-years across, compared with 100,000 light-years for the Milky Way. Science News sponsorship position.

Ancient Greek philosophers debated the Milky Way’s nature, with some attributing it to celestial fires and others viewing it as a dense cluster of distant stars. Credit: Ale RaFlo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via ...

Scientists have gotten the best-ever view of 'space tornadoes' howling near the Milky Way's black hole ... organic molecules throughout the galaxy.

The behemoth, nicknamed J2345-0449, is a giant radio galaxy, or "super spiral" galaxy roughly three times the size of the Milky Way.Like our own spiral galaxy, it harbors a supermassive black hole ...

Some three times the size of our Milky Way, the galaxy lies nearly a billion years away from us. The team found that 2MASX J23453268−0449256 sports a supermassive black hole larger than thought ...

A cosmic anomaly detected in a distant galaxy could portend a terrifying future for life in the Milky Way. The discovery suggests that our models of galactic evolution could be inaccurate.

These kinds of jets usually only come from elliptical galaxies. But this galaxy, a spiral like our Milky Way, is somehow managing to survive – and even remain stable – under extreme cosmic stress. The ...

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An international team of astronomers led by CHRIST University in Bangalore studied a galaxy called 2MASX J23453268−0449256, which is about three times larger than the Milky Way. Surprisingly ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic anomaly that challenges our understanding of the universe. An international ...