The galaxy in question also possesses vastly more dark matter than the Milky Way, hinting at a connection between active black holes and the abundance of the universe's most mysterious "stuff." The ...

Scientists have uncovered a massive galaxy that existed just 2 billion years after the Big Bang. But how did this colossal ...

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

The Big Wheel, discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope, formed just 2 billion years after the big bang - surprisingly ...

But the evidence is mounting that almost all spiral galaxies, including the Milky Way, host feathers. So how does a galaxy get these feathers? Over the years, debates have sprung up as astronomers ...

Thirteen billion years ago, the gas and dust particles that eventually became our Milky Way were whizzing around in every direction. Despite the wild motion of its parts, the galaxy as a whole was ...

The JWST's image of the Big Wheel galaxy, a massive rotating disk 11.7 billion light-years away. Its spiral stretches 100,000 ... times more massive than the Milky Way, for context, stretches ...