Above and below the plane of the Milky Way, there are two enormous bubbles of hot gas. Their formation is closely linked to the center of our galaxy and the supermassive black hole that lays there.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Theoretical understanding of heavy-fermion superconductors has just slipped a notch or two, says a team of experimentalists. Researchers from the University of Illinois at ...

Deep within the Milky Way’s core, researchers have uncovered cold gas clouds racing through a superheated galactic wind. These clouds sit high above the plane of the galaxy, deep inside enormous ...

Mysterious cosmic bubbles are being seen in a new light. For the first time, scientists have observed visible light from the Fermi bubbles, enormous blobs of gas that sandwich the plane of the Milky ...