"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of precious life in it?" ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

A blob of gas seen outside the Milky Way could be a type of starless, dark matter–dominated galaxy. Some scientists are skeptical.

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 ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way in shape, size, and stellar mass." Astronomers have discovered the most distant and thus earliest spiral galaxy ever ...

A galaxy from the early cosmos appears to mirror our Milky Way in shape, size, and structure—something no one expected to see so soon. Ancient Light Reveals a Familiar Shape Astronomers have ...

We’re catching them as their last glimpse before they’re leaving the galaxy ... the Milky Way and LMCs. When astronomers state that it is firing stars at us, they discovered this behaviour of stars ...

Astronomers think there could be as many as 100 million black holes in our galaxy, most with a similar mass to our Sun, but ...

Another similarity between the Milky Way and this early cosmic dragon galaxy is the sizes of their stellar disks and the masses of those regions. Zhúlóng's disk spans around 60,000 light-years ...

It’s a dwarf galaxy satellite of the Milky Way looking fuzzy in the sky ... The team found that there is no rotational motion in the stars, so the SMC is likely not rotating.