galaxies
Scientists Capture Mind-Blowing Image of the Cosmic Web Connecting the Universe
Spectacular new images of the large-scale structures that link our universe were captured from the Chilean desert.
Scientists Received a Radio Signal From the Furthest Reaches of Space Yet
The radio emissions traveled 13 billion light years to Earth and are the most distant ever detected.
Scientists Discover Massive 'Pipeline' in the Cosmic Web Connecting the Universe
A new study reveals “by far the best evidence” for the elusive cosmic filaments that supercharge ancient galaxies with cold gas.
Scientists Found a Raging Galactic Core From Near the Beginning of Time
The active galactic nucleus is powered by a supermassive black hole and was spotted just 670 million years after the Big Bang, making it the most distant quasar ever discovered.
Scientists Find More Evidence That Galaxies Are Synced Up In a 'Cosmic Web'
The oddly coherent motion of small satellite galaxies is challenging our accepted model of the universe.
Scientists Are Hunting for a Mysteriously Missing Supermassive Black Hole
A distant galaxy should have a back hole that is billions of times more massive than the Sun, but it's nowhere to be found. Where is it?
A Black Hole Is Eating a Web of Galaxies on the Edge of Spacetime
It has taken virtually the entire lifespan of the universe for the light from the 'Web of the Giant' to reach Earth.
Scientists Found an Ancient Graveyard of Anomalous Stars in Our Galaxy's Halo
The Milky Way tore apart a collection of extremely old stars two billion years ago, and scientists have found the grizzly remains.
Astrophysicists Have Made the Largest-Ever 3D Map of the Universe
This is the result of a 20-year collaboration of several hundred scientists from around 30 different institutions worldwide.
New Observations Suggest the Universe Is Becoming Increasingly Chaotic
In the latest datapoint supporting the radical idea that the universe isn’t totally random, a scientist’s observations of about 200,000 galaxies suggest a “rather exotic” model of a spinning universe that is losing its structure over time.
Scientists Discover ‘Regular Patterns' in Group of Mysterious Pulsing Stars
For the first time, scientists have detected clear patterns in a group of humongous and noisy stars that could unlock secrets about how our galaxy formed.
Scientists Think They’ve Found a New Type of Star-Destroying Black Hole
A new analysis of Hubble data has revealed the best candidate yet for a type of black hole that nobody has seen yet, and it gave itself away by tearing a star apart.