A black hole with kick
The Milky Way is known to host a supermassive black hole and dozens of featherweight ones. This paper describes the discovery of the second-most-massive known black hole in the galaxy.
A different explanation for extra gamma-rays
Today’s paper explores the origin of unexpected gamma-rays in our Galaxy.
Particle acceleration in the Galactic Center
Today’s paper takes an in-depth look at a very important region: the center of our Galaxy
Run away, star
Could the Milky Way’s hypervelocity stars originate from the LMC?
Particlebites reports on possible dark matter signatures from the Galactic center
In the latest post on our sister site Particlebites, Chris Karwin writes about new observations of the gamma ray excess at the Galactic center from Fermi.
A PeVatron at the Galactic Center
The gamma-ray experiment HESS offers compelling evidence of a PeVatron that may help us better understand galactic cosmic rays