[ad_1] “The simplest explanation of why Ant 2 appears to have so little mbad today is that it is being taken apart by the Galactic tides of the Milky Way,” says Sergey …
Read More »Great, darkly strange galaxy found hidden on the other side of the Milky Way | Science
[ad_1] Antlia 2 (top left), hidden on the other side of the Milky Way, is as big as the Great Magellan Cloud (bottom right) but much darker. (A luminous artificial drop representing …
Read More »The galactic collision that transformed our milky way
[ad_1] About 10 billion years ago, the Milky Way – then small galaxy that did not contain the current spiral structure or the diffuse halo of surrounding stars – suffered a mbadive …
Read More »The Milky Way was part of the cosmic collision 10 billion years ago
[ad_1] Astronomers using the Gaia space telescope from the European Space Agency have discovered that our galaxy was involved in a cosmic fusion 10 billion years ago. It is thought that the …
Read More »A massive star orbiting the central black hole of the Milky Way confirms Einstein's general theory of relativity
[ad_1] Albert Einstein was proved just yet. Sagittarius A, the supermbadive black hole in the heart of the Milky Way, is orbited by three mbadive young stars that have been dubbed "S-Stars" …
Read More »A new telescope in South Africa will show us the center of the Milky Way
[ad_1] We had recently reported that the most advanced new telescope radio to date, MeerKAT, was inaugurated in Carnarvon, South Africa and that it has now started operations. MeerKAT, in its first …
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