Just as they are on Earth, magnetic field lines are of ... that any large scale project has attempted to map the gravitational field of the Milky Way. It will take some time to complete the ...

"This new image of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way, Sgr A*, tells us that near the black hole are strong, twisted, and ordered magnetic fields," Sara Issaoun, research co-leader and ...

A stunning new map of the magnetic fields at the Milky Way's center charts never-before-seen features, and raises new questions about how our galaxy's central engine works. When you purchase ...

"The center of the Milky Way and most of the space between stars is filled with a lot of dust, and this is important for our galaxy's life cycle." The Milky Way is our home galaxy, but how well do ...

the Milky Way. This Impressionistic swirl of color represents the churning magnetic fields in giant dust clouds near the center of the galaxy. The map, painted in infrared wavelengths, reveals new ...

Details of the Milky Way’s origin story are still fuzzy, and studying this ancient process is exceptionally tricky. But a new map of the galactic center and its magnetic field offers scientists ...

Astronomers have discovered powerful "twisted" magnetic fields spiraling around the black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way, the European Southern Observatory said Wednesday.

Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within the Milky Way using a technique called Faraday rotation. It works like this. There's a bunch of dust—literal dust grains ...

The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual ...

"What we're seeing now is that there are strong, twisted, and organized magnetic fields near the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy," Sara Issaoun, a project co-leader and NASA ...

It’s a never-before-seen view of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A*), the immense black hole at the Milky Way’s core that ... out vivid details of magnetic field lines and map their characteristics.