"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to be." ...

How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That’s easy, right? A galaxy is a large collection of millions ...

Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy ...

Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from the regions around black holes in the centers of ...

A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare kind of galaxy that seems to be missing one of the universe’s most important ingredients: ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a new ghost galaxy, that does not contain dark matter.

With a magnitude of +8 the vast galaxy sits just outside of the perception range of the human eye. However, it can be spotted ...

NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret: a ravenous black hole at its ...

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have found the reason for the strange deficiency of dark matter in ...

First spotted in 2024, FCC 224 is a dwarf galaxy that boasts a dozen luminous, tightly bound clusters of stars — an unusually rich population for its size, typically seen in larger, dark-matter ...