Early Universe
Monster Black Holes Lurk at the Edge of Time
The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes…
Oldest Spiral Galaxy in the Universe Discovered
Caption: An artist’s rendering of galaxy BX442 and its companion dwarf galaxy (upper left). Credit: Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &…
Early Black Holes were Grazers Rather than Glutonous Eaters
Black holes powering distant quasars in the early Universe grazed on patches of gas or passing galaxies rather than glutting…
Hubble Captures Giant Lensed Galaxy Arc
[/caption] Less than a year ago, the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 captured an amazing image - a…
Quadruply Lensed Dwarf Galaxy 12.8 Billion Light Years Away
[/caption] Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for astronomers that allows them to explore distant galaxies in far more detail…
The Lyman-Alpha Blob That Ate The Universe…
[/caption] It's called a Lyman-alpha blob and it's one of the largest known single objects in the Universe. It first…