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Chocolate fan's petition to bring back Milky Way Crispy Rolls hits sweet spot with devotees

One man's attempt to get major manufacturer to rethink its decision to take bar off the shelves is gathering pace

Chronicle Live

Huge Gas Bubble Swirling Around Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

A huge gas bubble is swirling around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole at almost a third of the speed of light, reveals a new study. As big as the planet Mercury, it completes a full circle in just 70 minutes – over 200 million miles an hour.

Zenger

Hubble finds a wall of hot plasma acting like a shield for two nearby galaxies

Gas heated to half a million degrees protects two small galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic clouds.

Inverse

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Bubble of hot gas discovered spinning around Milky Way black hole

Astronomers say they have detected signs of a gas bubble circling the black hole at the centre of our galaxy at what they called a "mind-blowing" pace – around 30 percent of the speed of light.

Radio France Internationale

Dozens starstruck at Northumberland dark skies mass trespass

Participants view Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy as campaigners bemoan restrictions on right to roam

The Guardian - UK

Look! Astronomers find a hot ball of plasma circling the Milky Way’s massive black hole

This bubble that circles the event horizon of Sgr A* takes just 70 minutes to whip around the black hole. It was observed by the Event Horizon Telescope.

Inverse

Astronomers detect hot gas bubble around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

The finding helps to us to better understand the mysterious environment of the black hole called Sagittarius A*.

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Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself – and astronomers are discovering more of the billions they think are out there

About a third of all exoplanets are super-Earths, making them the most common type of exoplanet in the Milky Way.

The Hindu

This cosmic object was pivotal in the first picture of the Milky Way's black hole

A bright and messy extragalactic den helped us take a special space photo with the Event Horizon Telescope.

Inverse

How massive stars steal planets

Our Sun has a rather lonely existence in the Milky Way galaxy. It sits on its own, four light years

The Hindu

Seeing stars: the astronomical rise of Australian dark-sky tourism

Australia has a relative abundance of astro-tourism destinations, and a growing movement to help protect their darkness

The Guardian - AU

Hubble findings may provide insights into formation of Universe

Stars are the machines that sculpt the universe, yet scientists don't fully know how they form. To understand the frenzied 'baby boom' of star birth that occurred early in the universe's history, researchers turned to the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Read more on Dynamite…

Dynamite News

How massive stars steal planets – new research

Our Sun has a rather lonely existence in the Milky Way galaxy. It sits on its own, four light years away from the nearest star, with only its planetary system for company. But it wasn’t always like this. We almost exclusively observe young stars in groups, so-called stellar nurseries, where…

The Conversation

A sneaky interloper behind our galaxy’s center complicates the search for dark matter

Is it dark matter or pulsars giving off weird gamma rays? The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy is giving astronomers a possible headache.

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James Webb helps to untangle the mysteries of the Tarantula Nebula

At a mere 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Tarantula Nebula is the largest and brightest star-forming region in the Local Group, as scientists comfortingly call the galaxies nearest our Milky Way. The cloud is home to the hottest, most massive stars known. James Webb has sent…

The Hindu

No Gamma rays from a dwarf galaxy solve an astronomical puzzle

A glowing blob known as “the cocoon”, which appears to be inside one of the enormous gamma-ray emanations from the centre of our galaxy dubbed the “Fermi bubbles”, has puzzled astronomers since it was discovered in 2012.

The Conversation

Gamma rays from a dwarf galaxy solve an astronomical puzzle

Chronicle Live

Photographer captures Northern Lights and Milky Way photos from Bamburgh in Northumberland

Owen Humphreys was up early and patiently waited for clouds to break so he could photograph the aurora borealis and stars

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Beware! Dramatic image of spiral galaxies previews the future fate of the Milky Way

These two merging galaxies are locked in a cosmic death spiral similar to the one that binds us to the Andromeda Galaxy.

Daily Record

Amateur photographer captures incredible Milky Way picture over Turnberry Lighthouse

Peter Ribbeck waited until 11.30pm to get the shot, which he captured while standing on a rock with his tripod as the waves lapped around his feet.

Daily Mirror

Four 'malicious' alien civilisations may live inside our Milky Way

A new paper on life outside our planet calculated that a handful of evil aliens could potentially invade us - although it found the chances of it happening are "very low"

The Conversation

Astronomers have found an especially sneaky black hole – discovery sheds light on star death, black hole formation and gravitational waves

There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research.

The Hindu

Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: on James Webb Space Telescope

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Zenger

A Dormant Black Hole Was Detected Just 160,000 Light Years From Earth

A dormant black hole at least nine times the mass of the our Sun has been detected just 160,000 light years from Earth, the first time outside our galaxy.

The Guardian - UK

First dormant black hole found outside the Milky Way

VFTS243 has a mass nine times that of the Sun’s and is in a binary system with a companion star

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