- We may finally have a way to weigh the Milky Way https://www.popsci.com/milky-way-mass?dom=rss-default&src=syn 9 comments space
- Astronomers can now "weigh" the Milky Way Galaxy, using approximate measurements streams produced by dissolving globular clusters. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150602153457.htm 95 comments science
- Scientists weighed all the mass in the Milky Way galaxy. It’s mind-boggling. [link from Vox.com] https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/4/2/18282606/milky-way-mass-stars-dark-matter?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=entry&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit 3 comments space
- Has the Milky Way Lost Weight? New proposal estimates Milky Way may weigh less than half as much as previously assumed. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/01/has-the-milky-lost-weight.html?ref=hp 13 comments science
- Fast radio bursts used as 'searchlights' to detect gas in Milky Way: Canadian scientists find Galactic Halo weighs much less than previously thought https://www.utoronto.ca/news/researchers-use-fast-radio-bursts-searchlights-detect-gas-milky-way 11 comments science
- The Milky Way weighs in at about 1.5 trillion solar masses, according to the latest measurements by Hubble and Gaia. Only a tiny percentage of this is attributed to the 200 billion stars and supermassive black hole at the center. Most of the rest of the mass is locked up in dark matter. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/what-does-the-milky-way-weigh-hubble-and-gaia-investigate 501 comments space
- Team of astronomers using telescope in north-east China recently discovered a black hole, dubbed LB-1, about 15,000 light years away in Milky Way. Colliding black holes detected from gravitational waves each weigh up to about 50 Suns. LB-1, detected from its orbital motion, has mass of about 70. https://theconversation.com/a-surprisingly-big-black-hole-might-have-swallowed-a-star-from-the-inside-out-and-scientists-are-baffled-127795 16 comments space