The James Webb Space Telescope’s first picture released to the public showed off thousands of galaxies. At first glance, the pinpoints of light shining in the blackness of space look like little stars ...

The standard cosmology can answer almost nothing about how the structure of a galaxy is formed. It expects a supermassive black hole at the center and dark matter in the halo to explain the ...

Yale researchers co-authored the study uncovering “ultra-massive” galaxies formed briefly after the Big Bang, the creation of the universe. The discovery was based on observations from the James Webb ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

Understanding how galaxies grow has long stood as one of astronomy’s core challenges. Over time, scientists have gathered ...

An international team of astrophysicists from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), the University of La Laguna (ULL) and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI, USA) has discovered ...

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In a remarkable breakthrough, astronomers have uncovered the first known triple system where three galaxies, each harboring an active, radio-bright supermassive black hole, are caught in the midst of ...