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Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming stars at an intense rate from collapsing clouds of dust. Reported in ...

Some of the biggest galaxies in the universe stopped making stars billions of years ago, and even today, no one fully understands why. This mystery is puzzling because many of these galaxies still ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, occasionally feasting on infalling material and burping out powerful jets. But ...

Gas clouds do trigger bursts of star formation in merging galaxies through large-scale compression caused by gravitational interaction. When galaxies pass close to one another, their interstellar gas ...

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have unveiled new insights into ...

Alexey A Petrov receives funding from the US Department of Energy. Scientists working with the James Webb Space Telescope discovered three unusual astronomical objects in early 2025, which may be ...

A telescope tasked with making the largest-ever map of the universe has confirmed a harsh, if unsurprising, truth: Nothing lasts forever — not cold November rain, or even the cosmos itself. Using a ...

Imagine a universe that barely exists—just fractions of a second old, too young to look anything like the cosmos we know today. Now, picture black holes, boson stars, and even something as outlandish ...

In a groundbreaking observation, the James Webb Space Telescope captured unprecedented detail within the Small Magellanic Cloud. The images revealed hundreds of young stars forming in metal-poor ...

“Our analysis shows a unique planetary arrangement: two planets are transiting one star, and the third is transiting its companion star,” said co-lead author Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández, researcher and ...