Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s rendering of protocluster SPT2349-56 captures clashing galaxies in varied shapes and sizes, with orange gas ripped ...

The vastness of space allows for a huge variety of structures to pop up all over the place. Even things we think of as one-and-done objects—like galaxies—come in quite a few shapes and sizes. Follow ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international team led by Nikolaus Sulzenauer and Axel Weiß from the Max Planck ...

The data is starting to reveal how galaxies and their black holes evolve.

These three galaxy images from the AEGIS survey show a range of galaxy types: a disk-like spiral galaxy (top), a cloud-like elliptical galaxy (middle), and an irregular galaxy resulting from a ...

A telescope in Chile has caught a spectacular new view of a peculiar galaxy with a monster black hole at its heart. The new image shows the galaxy Centaurus A, which is a sprawling elliptical galaxy ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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Four galaxies crowd the center of a collapsing structure 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Each one is churning out stars at a pace that defies comparison with the present-day universe. Around ...