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350 years later Newton's Law of Gravity just got put to the ultimate test — here's how it didNewton’s Law of Gravity just survived its biggest cosmic test. Scientists studied nearly 686,000 galaxies spread across 7 billion light-yea...
New research suggests giant cosmic structures could be rotating across billions of light-yearsAstronomers have found that massive cosmic filaments, stretching hundreds of millions of light-years, are slowly rotating. These structures...
Astronomers detect record-breaking ‘Space Laser’ from merging galaxies 8 billion light-years awayAstronomers have detected the most distant and brightest "space laser," a megamaser, originating from a galactic collision when the univers...
Astronomers observe largest ever sample of galaxies up to over 12 billion light years away: StudyAn international team of astronomers, utilizing the James Webb Space Telescope, has identified nearly 1,700 galaxy groups in the COSMOS Web...
James Webb Space Telescope Shocks Scientists by Capturing 44 Stars from the Distant UniverseThe James Webb Space Telescope has made an incredible discovery, spotting a record-breaking collection of stars in a far-flung galaxy, 6.5 ...
700 million light-years away! Jellyfish galaxy JO 206 swims across Hubble Telescope's lensThe galaxy's "tentacles" are long tendrils of star formation that trail behind the galaxy's disk, resembling the aquatic animal. These tend...
Hubble finds ghost light among galaxies stretches far back in timeIntracluster light was first detected in the Coma cluster of galaxies in 1951 by Fritz Zwicky, who reported that one of his most interestin...
NASA probe set to uncover mysteries of rare 'relic galaxy'The wayward stellar island may provide valuable insights into the origin and evolution of galaxies billions of years ago.
Indian scientists discover 'Saraswati' -- a supercluster of galaxiesThis is one of the largest known structures in the neighbourhood of the universe, 4,000 million light-years away from Earth and roughly mor...
- Merging galaxy clusters cause biggest bang in universe
New York, June 8 (IANS) Two galaxy clusters are banging into each other at supersonic speeds and merging together to create a larger galaxy...
- Hubble captures galaxy cluster 6 bn light years away
London, May 5 (IANS) The NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope has revealed new details of a massive galaxy cluster located about six billion lig...
- Vast wave of hot gas found in nearby Perseus galaxy cluster
Washington, May 3 (IANS) An international team of scientists has discovered a vast wave of hot gas in the nearby Perseus galaxy cluster.
Vast cluster of young galaxies spotted in early universeThe newly discovered "proto-cluster" of galaxies, observed when the universe was only 1.7 billion years old is one of the most massive stru...
Astronomers spot most massive galaxy cluster everThe cluster, named "IDCS 1426", is the most massive cluster of galaxies yet discovered in the first four billion years after the Big Bang.
- Hubble captures images of first-ever predicted supernova
The supernova, nicknamed Refsdal, has been spotted in the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223.
Giant galaxy cluster discovered 8.5 billion light-years awayTo find how these clusters evolve over time and what they looked like billions of years ago, astronomers looked back in time to our youthfu...
Galaxy that spits out 800 new stars every year discoveredThe discovery is the first to show that gigantic galaxies at the centre of massive clusters can grow significantly by feeding off gas stole...
Dead galaxies may be packed with dark matterGalaxies in a cluster roughly 300 million light years from Earth could contain 100 times more dark matter than visible matter
Over 800 'ultra dark' galaxies discoveredAstronomers have discovered 854 previously hidden 'ultra dark' galaxies, that may be filled with mysterious dark matter, in a region known ...
Astronomers find 11 runaway galaxiesAstronomer Igor Chilingarian said the galaxies were "facing a lonely future, exiled from the galaxy clusters they used to live in,".