New study challenges existing knowledge for why galaxies stop forming stars
Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars. A galaxy’s central black hole and…
MIT astronomers discover the earliest known flickering quasar | MIT News
A supermassive black hole lies at the heart of every galaxy, including the Milky Way. When a black…
Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies Could Unlock Secrets of the Early Universe
(A) Dark matter distribution in our neighborhood in the Universe, the so-called Local Group of galaxies. The two…
Black holes are twisting the universe: New discovery shows Einstein was right |
Some discoveries arrive quietly, without fireworks or clean endings. Astronomers were watching a distant flare from a galaxy…
Astronomers notice an hourglass like shape while scanning an ordinary galaxy |
Initially, the galaxy did not appear to be particularly exciting. In cosmic terms, ESO 130 G012 is only…
Scientists Find Cosmic “Fingerprints” of Mysterious Dark Matter
Rutgers researchers have mapped hidden patterns of dark matter by studying distant star-forming galaxies, uncovering clues about how…
JWST May Have Found the Universe’s First Pristine Galaxy
The James Webb Space Telescope may have uncovered one of the Universe’s first galaxies, AMORE6, almost devoid of…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Discovers 300 Mysterious Objects That Shouldn’t Exist
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have spotted 300 mysterious objects that may be some of the…