Instead of being annihilated from without, the Milky Way’s cosmic destruction could begin from within. The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away ...

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes is wreaking havoc, consuming stars and accelerating the cycle of star ...

this means there is a balance in the cycle of destruction and creation of molecules at the heart of the Milky Way. “Silicon monoxide is currently the only molecule that exclusively traces shocks ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone ... with swirling dust and gas molecules cycling through formation and destruction, the mechanism that drives this process has remained elusive.