Dec. 19, 2024 — Researchers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as ...

Galaxies are the building blocks of the universe. Clusters of galaxies, and clusters of clusters of galaxies, called superclusters, make up the structures in the geography of the universe. In this ...

My collaborators and I have just tackled one of astrophysics’ enduring mysteries: how massive elliptical galaxies can form. Now, for the first time, we have solid observational evidence that ...

But here's the catch: JWST has shown these first galaxies to be shockingly bright, massive and very blue, with no sign of any dust. That's a real puzzle. There are many theories to explain the ...

The image shows off Earth's colorful airglow as well as two nearby galaxies, together dubbed the Magellanic Clouds, just outside of our own cosmic neighborhood. In the bottom half of the photo ...

The scientists made the discovery using a new technique, which looked at the distribution of light emitted by over 100 star-forming and highly-luminous galaxies. “This is the first real evidence ...

Although stars, planets and galaxies are huge clumps of matter in ... If these structures are real, then it's definitely food for thought for cosmologists and the accepted thinking on how the ...

But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive black holes expect to find binary systems – two supermassive black holes orbiting each ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...