Using the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) MeerKAT telescope, Ian Heywood of the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and his colleagues mapped out broad regions in the centre ...

The ‘glow’ is in the form of gamma radiation and was spotted by scientists in data from NASA’s Fermi space telescope in 2009. (VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) ...

Scientists have uncovered the origin of three mysterious signals coming from the centre of the Milky Way. For years, astronomers have struggled to understand the strange spikes of energy that blare ...

For years, scientists have been puzzled by three mysterious signals coming from the centre of the Milky Way, a chaotic and violent place where Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole, sits. A study ...

The Milky may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre, scientists claim. Until now, it has been widely believed that our galaxy contains both a supermassive black hole at its core and a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronomers recently discovered a never-before-seen celestial phenomenon hiding in our own cosmic backyard. The mystery object, ...

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. Though the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

Something is keeping cosmic rays out of the centre of the galaxy. The Milky Way is suffused with a sea of high-energy particles spewed out by supernovae and other energetic astrophysical objects, but ...

The FINANCIAL — The black hole at the centre of our Galaxy not only flares irregularly from day to day but also in the long term. This is revealed by an analysis of 15 years of data by an ...

Because I’m based in the northern hemisphere, my suggestions of what to look for in the skies can sometimes be skewed towards what we can see from that half of the planet. So, in this month’s column I ...