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Strange Objects Found at The Galactic Centre Are Like Nothing Else in The Milky Way
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2020
There’s something really weird in the centre of the Milky Way.

By David Aragorn
Something Appears to Have Collided With the Milky Way and Created a Huge Wave in the Galactic Plane
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 8, 2020
An enormous wave has been discovered in the Milky Way that may have formed as a result of a collision with a massive mystery object—potentially a clump of dark matter—scientists have said.

By David Aragorn
A newfound black hole in the Milky Way is weirdly heavy
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 28, 2019
The object is locked in orbit with a star about 13,800 light-years away from Earth

By David Aragorn
Superfast star found leaving Milky Way at 1,700km per second
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 13, 2019
Astronomers say S5-HVs1 ventured close to supermassive black hole before being ejected

By David Aragorn
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole reached record brightness this year
- Space
- September 19, 2019
The behemoth at the center of the galaxy flared up in near-infrared wavelengths

By David Aragorn
Black hole at centre of galaxy is getting hungrier, say scientists
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 14, 2019
Scientists say Milky Way’s Sagittarius A* has been more active in recent months

By David Aragorn
Mystery Black Hole Appears to Have Hurled a Star Across the Milky Way
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 13, 2019
A mysterious black hole—that has yet to be discovered—in one of our galaxy’s spiral arms appears to have hurled a star across the Milky Way, an international team of astronomers has said.

By David Aragorn
Alien civilizations may have explored the galaxy and visited Earth already, new study says. We just haven’t seen them recently.
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 9, 2019
There are plenty of scenarios in which aliens could exist but we haven’t heard from them, the study authors wrote. Aliens may have even visited Earth, they say, just not recently enough for us to have noticed.

By David Aragorn
Millions of High-Speed Black Holes Could Be Zooming Around The Milky Way
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 3, 2019
How are black holes born? Astrophysicists have theories, but we don’t actually know for certain. It could be massive stars quietly imploding with a floompf, or perhaps black holes are born in the explosions of colossal supernovas. New observations now indicate it might indeed be the latter.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers find that Milky Way is a warped and twisted galaxy
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 3, 2019
Astronomers have created the most precise map to date of the Milky Way by tracking thousands of big pulsating stars spread throughout the galaxy, demonstrating that its disk of myriad stars is not flat but dramatically warped and twisted in shape.

By David Aragorn