Milky Way

The bright glow of rapidly orbiting gas has a unique flicker. In a recent paper published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers from Princeton University and the University of California Santa Barbara used this subtle flickering to…

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are part of a large international collaboration that unveiled the first image proving a supermassive black hole spins at the center of the Milky Way. The partnership published their…

MIT astronomers have locked onto a mysterious system 3,000 light years from Earth—a "black widow binary." The rapidly spinning neutron star, or pulsar, is circling and slowly consuming a smaller companion star, just like the mate-destroying…