Scientists say they’ve found “space tornadoes” swirling in the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. While the galaxy’s centre, including the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, is known to be active and filled ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the ...

New insights from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer unprecedented images of the universe at 380,000 years old, revealing ...

If our 13.8-billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

As astronomers peer through telescopes across the cosmos, dust clouds may distort the light from distant objects, altering observations.

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of the characteristics of cosmic dust in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...