• Ultra-high-energy gamma rays detected from Milky Way’s center reveal extreme cosmic energy

    A recent study of High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory data showed a violent mystery in the Milky Way galaxy. Pat Harding, a physicist at Los Alamos and the Department of Energy’s principal investigator for the project said that the results are a glimpse at the center of the Milky Way to an order of magnitude higher energies than ever seen before.

  • Using radio telescopes to spot stars hidden in the galactic center

    Harvard researchers are proposing a new way to clear the 'dust and fog' we now see at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. To spot the stars hiding there, they suggest looking for radio waves coming from supersonic stars.For now, the center of Milky Way galaxy is

  • Telescopes uncover early construction phase of giant galaxy

    Astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction. The building site, dubbed "Sparky," is a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate.&n

  • Giant magnetized outflows from our Galactic Center

    Two years ago, CfA astronomers reported the discovery of giant, twin lobes of gamma-ray emission protruding about 50,000 light-years above and below the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, and centered on the supermassive black hole at our galaxy’s core.The scientists