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Physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center -- a surprise suggesting our galaxy's gravitational core may have less dark matter than ...

A new rotation curve analysis of the Milky Way reveals that conventional axisymmetric mass models cannot fully reconcile both photometric profiles and observed stellar motions. By modeling stellar, ...

Researchers have discovered the most distant Milky-Way-like galaxy yet observed. Dubbed REBELS-25, this disk galaxy seems as orderly as present-day galaxies, but we see it as it was when the universe ...

The Milky Way rotation curve representing the circular rotational speed of stars as a function of distance to the galactic center. The white dots and error bars ...

Astronomers at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) discovered for the first time that the hot gas in the halo of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning in the ...

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A study by MIT physicists suggest the Milky Way’s gravitational core may be lighter in mass, and contain less dark matter, than previously thought. By clocking the speed of stars throughout the Milky ...