Our Milky Way is far from calm — it ripples with a colossal wave spanning tens of thousands of light-years, revealed by ESA’s Gaia telescope. This wave, moving through the galaxy’s disc like ripples ...

An excess of gamma rays in the center of our galaxy could mean scientists have finally detected dark matter particles—or not ...

New research shows that dark matter has a different distribution in our galaxy than previously thought, and that advances ...

For over a decade, a dim but persistent glow near the center of the Milky Way has confused astronomers. This mysterious ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins may be closing in on dark matter’s elusive trail, uncovering a mysterious gamma ray glow at the ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, a faint and widespread glow of gamma rays has puzzled astronomers for decades. The light could be the result of dark matter particles colliding, or it might come from ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

Researchers have identified two theories explaining the mysterious gamma ray glow at the center of the Milky Way.

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the theory that dark matter could be the source.

For decades, astronomers have known that stars orbit the Milky Way’s centre and that the galactic disc is warped.

An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...