Astronomers combined data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory to create a stunning new image of two merging spiral ...

The Champagne Cluster is a rare and beautiful example of two galaxy clusters smashing together. Its festive name comes from ...

From our vantage point inside it, the Milky Way can feel infinite, a hazy river of light that wraps around the sky. Yet when ...

According to a new study, some of the earliest galaxies observed with the James Webb Space Telescope are in fact much less massive than they first appeared. Black holes in some of these galaxies make ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

Another batch of the ‘impossible’ galaxies turned out not to be standard galaxies at all, but a new type of object that ...

Distance records are an excellent proxy for the state of the art in astronomy. Finding extremely faraway galaxies is hard. In ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe's contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and ...

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Astronomers have spotted three merging galaxies where all central black holes are actively feeding and radio bright, ...

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A few hundred million years after the Big Bang, a thick fog of hydrogen gas shrouded the newborn universe in darkness. Stars had begun to form in the densest clumps, but the surrounding gas muffled ...