In a recently published study, astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope have identified what could be the ...

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

A razor-thin cosmic filament is one of the largest rotating structures ever found, with implications for early galaxy ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There’s an entire galaxy at the center of each image, and the ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...