Are you ready for a new galactic puzzle? Then let's start with some clues. It has been long assumed that…
In a scenario where millions of years are considered a short period of time, hours are barely a blink of…
The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes…
Caption: An artist’s rendering of galaxy BX442 and its companion dwarf galaxy (upper left). Credit: Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &…
Black holes powering distant quasars in the early Universe grazed on patches of gas or passing galaxies rather than glutting…
[/caption] Less than a year ago, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 captured an amazing image - a…
[/caption] Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for astronomers that allows them to explore distant galaxies in far more detail…
[/caption] It's called a Lyman-alpha blob and it's one of the largest known single objects in the Universe. It first…