Astronomers have spotted a 40 billion solar mass black hole in the Abell 85 cluster of galaxies. They found the…
NGC 6240 is a puzzle to astronomers. For a long time, astronomers thought the galaxy is a result of a…
Based on new observations of super spiral galaxies, a team of scientists has found that they have massive dark matter…
Astronomers have spotted three supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the center of three colliding galaxies a billion light years away…
Messier 110 (NGC 205) is a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy. It's a dwarf elliptical galaxy, a common type of…
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Tokyo used ALMA to view 39 previously-undiscovered ancient galaxies.
If contemplating the vast size of astronomical objects makes you feel rather puny and insignificant, then this new discovery will…
Our planet is part of the larger structure of the Solar System, shaped and made stable by the force of…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers recently observed a bright disk around a black hole that defies…
Galaxy mergers are not particularly rare, but they are important events. Not only for the galaxies involved, but for scientists…