UConn's Milky Way Laboratory, headed by the Department of Physics Associate Professor Cara Battersby, presents their ...

Viewed from our vantage point in one of the Milky Way’s ragged spiral arms and 26,000 light-years from the galactic center, it lies near the borders of the constellations Sagittarius and ...

Find out where to catch the Milky Way's appearance in the night sky as it becomes more visible with the 2025 summer ...

Meet Galactic Compass: an app which will point the user towards the whopping black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. As you read this article, you are hurtling through space on a ...

and the inherent difficulty of looking into the crowded galactic center. Sagittarius A* is concealed by a multilayered veil. The first layer is the galactic plane—27,000 light-years’ worth of ...

The team also found that Sagittarius B1 and the innermost regions of the galactic center are populated with older stars — above the age of 7 billion years — while there is a shortage of stars ...

associate professor in the physics and astronomy department and deputy director of the Galactic Center Group at UCLA. Do was not involved in this study but has led research on Sagittarius A* in ...

Zamani (NSF's NOIRLab) The center of the Milky Way is a place of chaos. A supermassive black hole with a mass of about 4 million times that of the Sun named Sagittarius A* lurks in the galactic ...