Astronomers have discovered seven distant ... unique configurations of galaxies ever seen. This arrangement of warped and stretched galaxies contains the largest "Einstein cross," in reference ...

A new effort to map the rumblings in spacetime caused by enormous black hole collisions paints a surprisingly loud and ...

Kartheik Iyer, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University in New York, was the co-author on the paper on Firefly Sparkle. It ...

From the moment it unfurled its distinctive hexagonal mirrors in early 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has treated the ...

New imagery has been released from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which captured a photo of a spiral galaxy more than 76 ...

Astronomers are closer than ever to working out how the biggest galaxies in the ... The emerging idea is that black holes found at the centers of these galaxies are responsible for their evolution.

Galaxies crashing together 12 billion years ago could have caused the universe’s biggest galaxies to form, according to new research. A study by astronomers at the University of Southampton is ...

Read more about From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here’s what the James Webb telescope has found in just 3 years on Devdiscourse ...

Observations suggest the Sombrero Galaxy houses one of the largest supermassive black holes ever discovered in a nearby galaxy. It also has an exceptionally large number of globular star clusters ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...