A Gigantic Spinning Filament of 14 Galaxies Could Be the Largest Rotating Structure Ever Found
This spinning branch of the cosmic web binds 14 galaxies together. Credit: Lyla Jung. In a recently published…
Our Solar System Is Moving Faster Than It’s Supposed To, Study Suggests
It may not feel like it, but everything in the universe is in constant motion. Our Sun, with…
NASA’s TESS Spacecraft Triples Size of Pleiades Star Cluster
Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They…
Astronomers Uncover the Most Powerful “Odd Radio Circle” Ever Seen — And It Looks Like a Galactic Venn Diagram
A still image from the animation of RAD J131346.9+500320. Credit: RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory (India). When astronomers first started…
A Newly Discovered ‘Einstein’s Cross’ Reveals the Existence of a Giant Dark Matter Halo
The gravitational lensing not only splits the light source, but magnifies it, allowing a detailed view of the…
Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate
Press Release 2 October 2025 Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike…
NASA’s Chandra Finds Black Hole With Tremendous Growth
A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of…
Unprecedented ‘Einstein Cross’ Reveals Fifth Ghost Image and a Dark Matter Surprise
When gravity—an invisible yet ubiquitous force—bends and distorts light from distant galaxies, Earthbound observers get a rare glimpse…
Observable universe is 93 billion light years wide but what’s beyond it? Here’s what we can’t see…
One of the most important pieces of evidence for this limit is the cosmic microwave background radiation, faint…
This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered
Astronomers have identified what could be a new supermassive black hole, and with an estimated mass 36 billion…