Will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide in several billion years? The odds have changed with a new study using ...

Most of the (dark) matter beyond the Local Group of galaxies (which includes the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy) must be ...

Whether or not galaxies merge depends on how strong the gravitational attraction is between the galaxies and whether the universe's expansion is more powerful than gravity. Gravity affects everything ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at KU chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. I feel like every child, at some point in their youth, is scared of ...

The traditional understanding is that the center of our galaxy is dominated by a supermassive black hole. The “supermassive” part isn’t a mere superlative; your typical black hole that forms from the ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow of space itself. Yet one stubborn exception has lingered in our cosmic ...

"We are not just replacing the black hole with a dark object; we are proposing that the supermassive central object and the galaxy's dark matter halo are two manifestations of the same, continuous ...

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Most messages are press releases about astronomical discoveries—okay, scratch that; most of them are spam, but science announcements are an easy second place. But I also get questions from readers ...