Tag: Milky
The Milky Way weighs much less than expected, is it serious, doctor?
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist October 16, 2023 at 7:15 p.m. 8 Artist’s impression of our galaxy, highlighting the stars mapped by the European Gaia telescope © ESA By analyzing astrometric…
Our Milky Way is emitting elusive ghost particles
Neutrinos have been detected all over the Universe, but never from our Milky Way. It is now done thanks to a detector installed in Antarctica, assisted by an artificial intelligence…
This beautiful Milky Way isn’t ‘ours’, it’s a new photo from the James Webb Telescope
Samir Rahmoun February 15, 2023 at 5:10 p.m. 4 © European Space Agency (ESA) The European Space Agency has captured a marvelous galaxy whose shape is familiar to us. The…
We may have found the first wandering black hole in the Milky Way
A compact object appears to be wandering around our galaxy. This could be the first detection of a solitary wandering black hole inside the Milky Way. A lone black hole…
In pictures, the Milky Way as you’ve never seen it
Photography blog Capture the Atlas has announced the winners of its 5and edition of the Milky Way Photographer of the Year, a competition for which artists had to immortalize the…
A first photo of the black hole in the center of the Milky Way
Discovery Article reserved for subscribers Three years after the very first image of a black hole in history, an international collaboration unveiled an unprecedented snapshot of the center of our…
Maybe the Milky Way doesn’t have an embarrassing problem after all
New stars are still forming in our galaxy. According to observations, there are currently 1.65 to 1.9 solar masses of material that can be heated annually for nuclear fusion. For…
The Milky Way would have appeared much earlier than we thought
NOTour universe has not yet revealed all its secrets. Far from there. Everything started well with the Big Bang around 13.8 billion years ago. The Milky Way, to which the…
Once upon a time there was the Milky Way…
Reserved for subscribers By deducing the age of 250,000 stars, researchers have traced the major stages in the formation of our galaxy, which would be 2 billion years older than…
The Milky Way is much older than thought
The oldest parts of the Milky Way formed when the universe was only 6 percent of its current age – two billion years earlier than previously thought. This is the…
Exotic? This black hole would walk alone in the Milky Way
Eric Bottlaender Space specialist February 07, 2022 at 5:37 p.m. 12 Artist’s impression of the distortion generated by a black hole on the image of the Milky Way produced by…
A mysterious object sends a signal to Earth from the Milky Way
Every 18 minutes and 18 seconds, a mysterious radio signal from our galaxy is sent to Earth. This one can emit up to one minute. This discovery was observed by…