The plot has just thickened in the mystery tale about the unseen mass skulking inside the largest cluster of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. In the heart of Omega Centauri, a huge glob of ...

Omega Centauri is one of the finest jewels of the southern hemisphere night sky, as ESO’s latest stunning image beautifully illustrates. Containing millions of stars, this globular cluster is located ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky Way, finally be resolved? Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious ...

The object would be the second-largest black hole to be found in our Galaxy, if further studies can confirm the findings, which are described today in Nature. It could also be the strongest candidate ...

A rare "massive" black hole has been discovered about 18,000 light years from our planet—the closest of its type to our solar system ever found—after fast-moving stars provided "smoking gun" evidence ...

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Data from the Chandra X-ray Telescope has revealed spider pulsars, which are a group of dead stars, in globular cluster Omega ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a middleweight black hole in the nearby universe. The discovery could help solve the riddle of how even heftier black holes form and grow up with their ...

ESA's star-surveying Gaia mission has released a treasure trove of new data as part of its ‘focused product release’. As part of this data release Gaia explored Omega Centauri, the largest globular ...

It is a known fact that there are well over 100 billion stars in our own Milky Way galaxy and that number might even be near one trillion! We live in an amazing spiral galaxy which turns on its own ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A black hole likely lurks even closer to Earth than the supermassive ...

From left to right: The globular star cluster Omega Centauri as a whole, a zoomed-in version of the central area, and the region in the very center with the location of the mid-size black hole that ...