galaxies
‘Molten Ring’! NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning image of Einstein Ring — all you need to know
Hubble Space Telescope: Astronomers who have been observing this particular Einstein Ring have started calling it the “Molten Ring”
Galaxy cluster not just governed solely by mass: Scientists
An international team of researchers has found for the first time that the connection between a galaxy cluster and surrounding dark matter is not characterised solely by the mass of clusters but also by their formation histor
Most distant massive galaxy cluster, formed only 3.8 bn years after the Big Bang, found
Astronomers have detected a massive, sprawling, churning galaxy cluster - about 1,000 times more massive than our Milky Way galaxy - that formed only 3.8 billion years after the Big Bang.
Black holes can swell as large as 50 billion suns!
Stars with masses greater than about 20 times the mass of our Sun may produce black holes at the end of their lives and these matter-sucking monsters could get really big, according to a new study.
Gamma rays from ‘galaxy far far away’ detected
Gamma rays from a galaxy halfway across the visible universe have been detected by a team of astronomers.
Dark matter nursery and its monstrous baby galaxies 11.5 bn light-years away found
A nest of monstrous baby galaxies, 11.5 billion light-years away could help answer questions about how the known universe formed.
Faintest ever galaxy that existed 400 mn years after the Big Bang ‘captured’ by NASA
A team of astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever (a galaxy) seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years after the Big Ban
In ‘active’ galaxy ‘powered’ by black hole, NASA probe spots hints of gamma-ray cycle
Astronomers using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected hints of periodic changes in the brightness of a so-called "active" galaxy, whose emissions are powered by a supersized black hole.
Big Bang frontiers spotted; 250 galaxies on cusp of event, shows Hubble Space Telescope
A team of astronomers has discovered 250 tiny galaxies that existed 600 to 900 million years after the Big Bang. Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken
Distant ‘galactic halos’ discovered
A team of researchers has discovered distant galactic halos. A study of spiral galaxies seen edge-on has revealed that halos of cosmic rays and magnetic fields above and below the galaxies' disks are much more common than pre
Scientists find what happens when galaxies collide
The researchers found that when two galaxies of the same size collide, both galaxies produce stars at a much faster rate.
Astronomers find 11 runaway galaxies
Astronomers have spotted 11 runaway galaxies that have been flung out of their birthplaces to wander the void of intergalactic space.
Universe brighter than thought: NASA
Universe is brighter than thought, with a surprising surplus of infrared light in the dark space between galaxies.
