Quasars are some of the brightest objects in the universe. A quasar is powered by large amounts of matter falling into the ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a tightly packed cluster of supermassive black holes dating back 10.8 ...

This is the universe like you have never seen before. Thanks to the extraordinary sharpness of JWST, many hours of work, and ...

However, the USTC researchers have revealed that dark matter halos hosting dwarf galaxies also exhibit halo bias, which is ...

The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe – a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang ...

James Webb telescope helped solve a decade-long mystery about the universe’s expansion rate, shedding new light on the cosmic ...

The record-breaking galaxy is revealing secrets about the first stars and their unexpected chemical fingerprints.

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

A galactic pileup 94 million light-years away is giving astronomers a detailed look at how cosmic collisions shape the ...

In 1987, an enormous blue arc, thought to be hundreds of trillions of miles long, was first considered one of the largest ...

Now gather a few hundred billion stars and star clusters together, and you’ve got an immense structure known as a galaxy. The galaxy in which our star — the sun — resides is the Milky Way, so named ...

A cluster of eleven quasars on a galactic boundary challenges existing models, prompting a rethink of quasar formation in ...