Instead of a relatively distant dark galaxy, Westmeier thinks the object is more likely a regular gas cloud at the edge of the Milky Way. “I’m very skeptical about the claims that they’re ...

The lone black hole without a companion star is located 5,000 light-years away. A team of scientists have confirmed the existence of a lone black hole that has no star orbiting it in the Milky Way ...

And very similar to the Milky Way, Zhulong shows a central thickening of older stars, surrounded by a flat disc with spiral arms in which new stars are being formed. According to Mengyuan Xiao ...

Scientists have spotted what appears to be a fully-formed spiral galaxy, similar to our Milky Way, from just 1 billion years after the Big Bang. Named Zhúlóng (meaning “Torch Dragon” in Chinese ...

Current models suggest the Milky Way hosts around 10 billion of these embers, and more than 97 percent of all stars will finish their lives the same way. Aomawa Shields of the University of California ...

The team concluded that many more stars in the Milky Way galaxy might be home to planets that could support life. There are approximately 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way. Because ...