Portrait of Young Galaxy Flips Conventional Big Bang Theories
Scientists peeled back 12 billion years of cosmic history to reveal a startling detail about a young galaxy’s early formation.
Read moreScientists peeled back 12 billion years of cosmic history to reveal a startling detail about a young galaxy’s early formation.
Read moreAstrophysicists say that an extended halo of dark matter may surround Tucana II, one of the many dwarf galaxies neighboring the Milky Way. The ancient galaxy may also have been the site of one of the universe’s earliest galactic collisions.
Read moreAstronomers have been able to peer back in time — 7 billion years back — to see gigantic collisions of galaxy clusters, in the form of radio waves picked up by a low-frequency radio telescope here on Earth.
Read moreA ring of light from a newly observed galaxy resembling the Milky Way, captured using the largest radio telescope system in the world, is making scientists rethink their theories on how galaxies are formed and evolve.
Read moreScientists have discovered what is likely a recently formed galaxy, one with the lowest oxygen abundance on record, thanks to data obtained by Japan’s Subaru Telescope and innovative machine learning processes.
Read moreThe quest to uncover other intelligent life in the Milky Way reached a new milestone Monday as researchers said they’ve charted out the number of civilizations in our galaxy that may be home to intelligent beings.
Read moreStar-gazing instruments in the Chilean desert have observed a massive rotating disk galaxy formed more than 12 billion years ago when the universe was young — a discovery that challenges models for gradual galaxy formation.
Read moreThe universe has become an even more humbling place after a team of Harvard University astronomers discovered a galaxy-wide, wave-shaped gaseous structure that happens to form one of the closest arms of the Milky Way.
Read moreJust 3.5 million years ago, after the dinosaurs had already become extinct and ancient human ancestors began to walk the Earth, the center of the Milky Way galaxy lit up as an epic beam of energy burst forth, creating a flare that expanded to more than 200,000 light years away from the supermassive black hole that created it.
Read moreAn international team of astronomers wielding the observational power of three massive telescopes have discovered a 13 billion-year-old galaxy cluster, the oldest grouping of star systems observed to date in the cosmos, according to a study released Thursday.
Read moreAstronomers have discovered 39 massive and ancient galaxies that defy current models of the known universe and contain clues about the interactions of black holes with dark matter, a study published Wednesday revealed.
Read moreA supermassive star thousands of times larger than the sun may have been what caused Milky Way stars in globular clusters to have such unique chemistry, new research shows.
Read moreA new study supports the prevailing theory of where some of the universe’s most mysterious inhabitants – black holes – reside.
Read moreThis image, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows two galaxies becoming one. The twisted cosmic knot seen here is NGC 2623, located about 250 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer.
Read moreNew research has uncovered active supermassive black holes in six out of seven “jellyfish” galaxies reviewed, a surprising trend the reveals a previously unknown mechanism by which these cosmic enigmas are fed.
Read moreThe Hubble Telescope captured this image of galaxy NGC 4656, also known as “The Hockey Stick Galaxy.” Located in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs), the galaxy is shaped like an elongated warped stick stretching through space before curling at one end to give it its common name.
Read moreWe may soon know what a black hole looks like, if radio-telescope observations taking place around the world this week see what astronomers hope they will.
Read moreCosmic events in which stars are ripped apart by supermassive black holes occur 100 times more frequently than previously thought, British astronomers say.
Read moreA 3-dimensional map constructed using advanced telescopes may offer the first proof that the Milky Way Galaxy is being pushed as much as it’s being pulled.
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