Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered a gigantic galaxy phenomenon. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed that the giant elliptical galaxy...
A remote galaxy shining with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered using data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The galaxy is the most luminous galaxy...
Yale University and the University of California-Santa Cruz announced that an international team of astronomers led by the universities discovered an exceptionally luminous galaxy more than 13...
While the black hole recently discovered is not the most humongous, it is still pretty big by normal standards. And it is relatively nascent in its inception. About 875 million years after the start...
There are many more things in outer space that humans can’t see than those they can detect and one phenomenon that has been impossible to find until now is the stream of hydrogen that feeds galaxies...
The Universe’s star-making boom period is already over, according to a new study, which suggests that the rate of star-formation in the Universe is around a hundred times lower than it was five...
Our own Milky Way and Andromeda, its nearest spiral neighbor, are stunningly beautiful examples of High Surface Brightness (HSB) galaxies. Both grand spirals represent the sort of brilliantly-...
Astronomers have discovered a new most distant galaxy yet called z8_GND_5296. This new galaxy is located at a distance of 30 billion light-years. Hubble Space Telescope is used to discover this new...