From the Archive: Most galaxies have a black hole at the center, and astronomers have found the mass is consistently about 1/1000th the mass of the host galaxy. Read more below.
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsEighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant was one of the first people to theorize that the Milky Way was not the only galaxy in the universe. Kant coined the term island universe to describe a galaxy.One of the earliest uses of the English term Milky Way was in Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century poem “The House of Fame.” He likened the galaxy to a celestial roadway.
Editor's Note 10/13/14: We mistakenly said all galaxies are receding from ours when in fact only some are. We regret the error.
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