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Visualization of the simulations used in the study. Top left shows dark matter in white. Bottom right shows a simulated Large Magellanic Cloud-like galaxy with stars and gas, and several smaller companion galaxies.

October 10, 2019Science

The Milky Way kidnapped several tiny galaxies from its neighbor

Just like the moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the

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An artist's impression of the massive bursts of ionizing radiation exploding from the center of the Milky Way and impacting the Magellanic Stream.

October 6, 2019Science

Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way exploded

A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky

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Andromeda: our nearest large galactic neighbour.

October 4, 2019Science

Will Andromeda start consuming the Milky Way?

Scientists have now charted the cannibalistic past of the neighboring galaxy to our own – Andromeda. The large galaxy now

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Gaia's all-sky-view, showing the clear center of the Milky Way and the galactic disc

May 14, 2019Science

“Stellar baby boom” may have given birth to half the Milky Way’s stars

About a year ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) released the Gaia galactic census that detailed the position, distance and

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October 3, 2018Science

Hypervelocity alien stars could be invading the Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered a population of incredibly fast-moving stars bearing down on the Milky Way. It is possible that these

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October 1, 2018Science

Four newly discovered Milky Way neighbors

Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are the smallest, most dark matter dominated, and least chemically enriched stellar systems in the universe, and

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September 7, 2018Science

An ‘Invisible Galaxy’ May Be Hiding in the Milky Way

Scientists think that at the heart of nearly every galaxy, including our own Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole

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August 25, 2018Science

Our Galaxy Has Already Died Once. Now We Are In Its Second Life

The Milky Way is a zombie. No, not really, it doesn’t go around eating other galaxies’ brains. But it did

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August 18, 2018Science

Magnetized inflow accreting to center of Milky Way galaxy

Are magnetic fields an important guiding force for gas accreting to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) like the one that

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July 4, 2018Science

How Long Would It Take to Cross the Milky Way at Light Speed?

The disk of our home galaxy – the Milky Way – is bigger than we previously thought. A new study

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April 18, 2018Science

Andromeda and Milky Way Galaxies Are Already Touching

The merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy won’t happen for another 4 billion years, but the recent discovery of a

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