Milky Way

  • James Webb Telescope Captures Mysterious Flares Near the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole

    James Webb Telescope Captures Mysterious Flares Near the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole

    Scientists have observed strange activity in Sagittarius A* (Sgr A), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Sgr A, located about 26,000 light-years from Earth and weighing four million times the mass of the Sun, constantly emits mysterious flares that are not yet…

  • Investigating The Fastest Planetary System

    Investigating The Fastest Planetary System

    Astronomers might have just discovered the fastest planetary system ever seen! A tiny star, possibly with a super-Neptune planet tagging along, is zooming through the Milky Way at an insane speed—about 1.2 million mph (1.9 million km/h). If it’s moving fast enough, this star could eventually escape our galaxy, dragging its planetary companion into intergalactic…

  • Quipu: The Largest Structure in the Universe Ever Found

    Quipu: The Largest Structure in the Universe Ever Found

    Astronomers have just discovered the largest known structure in the universe! Named Quipu, this massive structure stretches across 1.4 billion light-years. What’s inside? Nearly 70 superclusters of galaxies, with a total mass hundreds of thousands of times larger than the Milky Way. What is Quipu? Imagine Quipu as a giant cosmic highway network, where galaxies…

  • Scientists Discover the Longest Black Hole Jet in the Early Universe

    Scientists Discover the Longest Black Hole Jet in the Early Universe

    Astronomers have just found something amazing in the early universe: a gigantic jet shot out by a black hole, and it’s twice as long as our Milky Way galaxy! This jet stretches an incredible 200,000 light-years, even though it comes from a black hole that isn’t actually that big for a quasar. A Super-Long Jet…