The largest stars in the universe live the life of a rock star - they are born brilliant, live fast and die young. If that is ...

T o paraphrase Archimedes, if we had a selfie stick long enough—and the means to operate it—we could take a picture of the ...

ALMA’s most ambitious galactic survey yet exposes a wild, filament-filled stellar nursery at the very heart of the Milky Way. Astronomers have produced a remarkable new view of the center of the Milky ...

What: Researchers report the possible discovery of a millisecond pulsar near the Galactic Center using data from the ...

Using the Chile-based ALMA telescope, the researchers examined the dynamics and chemistry of a central region.

Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have created a detailed map of the cold cosmic gas in the Milky Way's core. This revealing map shows how gas forms stars and highlights activity around the ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

"It's a place of extremes, invisible to our eyes, but now revealed in extraordinary detail," Ashley Barnes, an astronomer at ...

A NASA animation has sized the biggest black holes known to scientists, including one that has the mass of 66 billion Suns.

A telescope in Chile has revealed in unprecedented detail the swirling splendor of star-forming gases at the heart of our ...