Understanding the nature of our cosmos requires an accurate map of how galaxies are spread throughout it. For decades, ...
Observations of ancient galaxies called "Little Red Dots" by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could finally answer the ...
Friday, June 5Standing some 50° high in the south by 10 P.M. local daylight time, M5 is a fabulous globular cluster well ...
For decades, astronomers assumed that all young star clusters shake off their birth clouds on roughly the same schedule. A ...
Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don't know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: ...
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 490-017, roughly 12,000 light-years in ...
Somewhere in the future, there's a finish line in the marathon to understand supermassive black holes (SMBHs).
Learn about the Great Attractor, a region of the universe that is constantly pulling the Milky Way and thousands of other ...
James Webb Space Telescope black hole discovery rewrites cosmic history: two peer-reviewed papers published nine days apart ...
Northwestern researchers used ALMA to map galactic-center carbon monoxide gas 100 times more deeply than ever before and ...
Webb observations of QSO1 suggest a giant black hole may have formed before its galaxy, challenging long-held theories of ...
The first direct mass measurement from the early universe weighs in on the debate over the origins of supermassive black ...