Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. How do galaxies form? For decades, that's been a mystery, but it may have finally been solved by a group of astronomers using ...

"Our findings take us closer to solving a long-standing mystery in astronomy that will redefine our understanding of how galaxies were created in the early universe." Astronomers have discovered ...

The Antennae Galaxies, part of the constellation Corvus, are colliding and going through a starburst phase marked by rapid star formation. (Credit: NASA) Among all space mysteries, the creation of the ...

Nov. 21, 2024 — A massive collision of galaxies sparked by one travelling at a scarcely-believable 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h) has been seen in unprecedented detail by one of Earth's most ...

Scientists have suggested at least some of the objects could be small orbiting galaxies on the precipice of falling into the central black hole, which is what's powering the quasar. All of the ...

In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive black holes expect to find binary systems – two supermassive black holes orbiting each other – at the hearts of some galaxies. Black ...

Galaxies crashing together 12 billion years ago could have caused the universe’s biggest galaxies to form, according to new research. A study by astronomers at the University of Southampton is ...

Astronomers have discovered mysterious 'UFO galaxies' that appear as red, glowing disc-shaped objects in the blackness of space. They found evidence of 56 'Ultra-red Flattened Objects' after ...

Quasars are luminous beacons powered by black holes consuming material at the centers of galaxies. In a recent study, Hubble provided an up-close look at the environment around 3C 273, revealing ...

You don't need to be an astrophotography pro because you can control the telescope with your smartphone and easily capture stars, nebulas, and galaxies with ease. First of all, I’ve spent a ...