The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could ...

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Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...

A multifractal spectrum called a weighted Cantor set model can describe how galaxies cluster, which is similar to other ...

In the vast tapestry of the universe, most galaxies shine brightly across cosmic time and space. Yet a rare class of galaxies ...

Researchers analyzed images of CDG-2 from NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope, the European Space Agency's Euclid space observatory, and the Japanese Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. At first glance, they saw ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

Observations of a distant quasar reveal that supermassive black holes may suppress star formation across intergalactic distances.

An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, revealing 13.7 million cosmic sources and delivering the most complete ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...