Wicked High-Definition Image of the Cosmic Web Shows the Universe’s Dark Matter Scaffolding
New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.
Astronomers just found the largest known object in the entire universe
Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
Largest celestial object of its kind discovered in the distant universe
Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...
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Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Gravitational lenses could help us find out
A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) presents a methodology to test the ...
Space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of light around galaxy in our cosmic neighborhood
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Europe’s Euclid space telescope has detected a rare halo of bright light around a nearby galaxy, ...
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Science Museum of Virginia’s ‘The Dome’ to showcase NASA’s new Andromeda Galaxy mosaic
Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.
Euclid Telescope Spots Einstein Ring Wrapped Around a Galaxy
The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...
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NASA's groundbreaking discovery in faraway galaxy could reveal universe's darkest secret
Astronomers have hailed the incredible discovery of an Einstein ring, a phenomenon that occurs when the light from a distant ...