Galaxies News

October 7, 2023

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Oct. 5, 2023 — A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead be evidence within the solar system of a modified law of gravity originally developed to understand the rotation of ...

Bursts of Star Formation Explain Mysterious Brightness at Cosmic Dawn

Oct. 3, 2023 — In the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) first images of the universe’s earliest galaxies, the young galaxies appear too bright, too massive and too mature to have formed so soon after the Big Bang. Using new simulations, a team of ...

New Proof for Black Hole Spin

Sep. 27, 2023 — The supermassive black hole at the heart of galaxy M87, made famous by the first picture of a black hole shadow, has yielded another first: the jet shooting out from the black hole has been confirmed to wobble, providing direct proof that the black ...

Hidden Supermassive Black Holes Reveal Their Secrets Through Radio Signals

Sep. 25, 2023 — Astronomers have found a striking link between the amount of dust surrounding a supermassive black hole and the strength of the radio emission produced in extremely bright ...

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Astronomers Discover Newborn Galaxies With the James Webb Space Telescope

Sep. 22, 2023 — With the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers are now able to peer so far back in time that we are approaching the epoch where we think that the first galaxies were created. ...

Astronomers Find Abundance of Milky Way-Like Galaxies in Early Universe, Rewriting Cosmic Evolution Theories

Sep. 22, 2023 — Galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about ...

Tag Team of the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA Captures the Core of the Most Distant Galaxy Protocluster

Sep. 20, 2023 — An international research team has used the James Webb Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to observe the most ...

Brilliant Galaxies of Early Universe

Sep. 15, 2023 — Scientists have used data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) as part of the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey to change the way we think about the universe and its distant ...

Matter Comprises of 31% of the Total Amount of Matter and Energy in the Universe

Sep. 13, 2023 — One of the most interesting and important questions in cosmology is, 'How much matter exists in the universe?' An international team has now ...

Discovery of Two Potential Polar Ring Galaxies Suggests These Stunning Rare Clusters Might Be More Common Than Previously Believed

Sep. 13, 2023 — These new detections suggest polar ring galaxies might be more common than previously ...

Dark Matter Halos Measured Around Ancient Quasars

Sep. 12, 2023 — At the center of every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. Beyond a certain size, these become active, emitting huge amounts of radiation, and are then called quasars. It is thought these are ...

The Universe Caught Suppressing Cosmic Structure Growth

Sep. 11, 2023 — As the universe evolves, scientists expect large cosmic structures to grow at a certain rate: dense regions such as galaxy clusters would grow denser, while the void of space would grow ...

Ravenous Black Hole Consumes Three Earths'-Worth of Star Every Time It Passes

Sep. 7, 2023 — Massive burst of X-rays detected by astronomers indicates material three times the mass of Earth burning up in a black hole. They observed a star ...

Furthest Ever Detection of a Galaxy's Magnetic Field

Sep. 6, 2023 — Astronomers have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy so far away that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to reach us: we see it as it was when the Universe was just 2.5 billion years ...

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Vast Bubble of Galaxies Discovered, Given Hawaiian Name

Sep. 5, 2023 — The immense bubble is 820 million light years from Earth and believed to be a fossil-like remnant of the birth of the ...

Webb Reveals Colors of Earendel, Most Distant Star Ever Detected

Aug. 9, 2023 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years ...

Gravitational Arcs in 'El Gordo' Galaxy Cluster

Aug. 2, 2023 — A new image of the galaxy cluster known as 'El Gordo' is revealing distant and dusty objects never seen before, and providing a bounty of fresh science. The infrared image displays a ...

Dark Energy Camera Captures Galaxies in Lopsided Tug of War, a Prelude to Merger

July 26, 2023 — The spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley's Coronet, is caught in a lopsided tug of war with its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC ...

Galaxy J1135 Reveals Its Water Map

July 20, 2023 — Researchers look at water in galaxies, its distribution and in particular its changes of state from ice to vapor, as important markers indicating areas of increased energy, in which black holes and ...

The Puzzle of the Galaxy With No Dark Matter

July 19, 2023 — New research has found the first evidence of a massive galaxy with no dark matter. The result is a challenge to the current standard model of ...

VERA Unveils Surroundings of Rapidly Growing Black Holes

July 18, 2023 — Astronomers used the state-of-the-art capability of VERA, a Japanese network of radio telescopes, to uncover valuable clues about how rapidly growing 'young' supermassive black holes form, ...

Hubble Views a Galactic Monster

July 14, 2023 — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a monster in the making in this observation of the exceptional galaxy cluster eMACS J1353.7+4329, which lies about eight billion light-years from ...

Stellar Cradles and Graves Seen in Farthest Galaxy Ever

July 14, 2023 — New observations have distinguished the sites of star formation and a possible site of star death from the surrounding nebula in a galaxy 13.2 billion light-years away. This is the farthest that such ...

James Webb Telescope Catches Glimpse of Possible First-Ever 'Dark Stars'

July 13, 2023 — Three bright objects initially identified as galaxies in observations from the James Webb Space Telescope might actually represent an exotic new form of star. If confirmed, the discovery would also ...

When the Stars Align: Astronomers Find Answers to Mysterious Action of Ghost Stars in Our Galaxy

July 13, 2023 — Scientists have found a source for the mysterious alignment of stars near the Galactic ...

Reinventing Cosmology: New Research Puts Age of Universe at 26.7 -- Not 13.7 -- Billion Years

July 11, 2023 — Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called 'impossible early galaxy ...

Webb Telescope Detects Most Distant Active Supermassive Black Hole

July 6, 2023 — Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed about 570 million years after the big ...

First 'Ghost Particle' Image of Milky Way

June 29, 2023 — Scientists have revealed a uniquely different image of our galaxy by determining the galactic origin of thousands of neutrinos -- invisible 'ghost particles' which exist in great quantities ...

Earliest Strands of the Cosmic Web

June 29, 2023 — Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. They gather together not only into clusters, but into vast interconnected filamentary structures with gigantic barren voids in between. This ...

Starlight and the First Black Holes: Researchers Detect the Host Galaxies of Quasars in the Early Universe

June 28, 2023 — For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes -- quasars -- seen less than a billion years after the Big ...

Never-Before-Seen Way to Annihilate a Star

June 22, 2023 — Astronomers studying a powerful gamma-ray burst, may have detected a never-before-seen way to destroy a star. Unlike most GRBs, which are caused by exploding massive stars or the chance mergers of ...

First Detection of Secondary Supermassive Black Hole in a Well-Known Binary System

June 6, 2023 — An international team of astronomers observed the second one of the two supermassive black holes circling each other in an active galaxy OJ ...

Webb Space Telescope Detects Universe's Most Distant Complex Organic Molecules

June 5, 2023 — Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth -- the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist. Thanks to ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope Peers Behind Bars

June 5, 2023 — A delicate tracery of dust and bright star clusters threads across this image from the James Webb Space Telescope. The bright tendrils of gas and stars belong to the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, ...

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