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Scientists say it's the earliest galaxy seen doing this (so far). Astronomers have caught an immensely ancient galaxy ...
How do you distinguish a galaxy from a mere cluster of stars? That’s easy, right? A galaxy is a large collection of millions ...
A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found ...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a new ghost galaxy, that does not contain dark matter.
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, ...
This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...
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 ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered "smoking gun" evidence of a hidden feeding supermassive ...
Famed for its unbelievable size — containing the mass of some 600 trillion suns — it also has a reputation for being one of the few "relaxed" galaxy clusters out there: it shows no signs of ...
Mysterious Phenomenon at Center of Galaxy Could Reveal New Kind of Dark Matter Mar. 10, 2025 — A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark ...
Astronomers at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) have found the reason for the strange deficiency of dark matter in ...