Dinosaur in the space: Astronomers discover ancient galaxy untouched for 7 billion yearsAstronomers have confirmed the discovery of KiDS J0842+0059, a rare, ancient galaxy that has remained virtually unchanged for over 7 billio...
01 Jul, 2025, 08.20 AM IST
'Not so fast': NASA shares a big update on 'end of the world' doomsday predictionNASA, in collaboration with the European Space Agency, has updated its long-standing prediction about a future collision between the Milky ...
04 Jun, 2025, 05.29 PM IST
Astronomers witness supermassive black hole tear star apart during violent galactic collision—here’s what exactly happened in this rare tidal disruption eventBlack hole rips apart star in a once-in-a-lifetime event called AT 2022wtn, spotted 700 million light-years away during a rare galactic col...
30 May, 2025, 11.24 PM IST
First-ever cosmic duel caught: One galaxy blasted another in deep space battle 11 billion light-years awayAstronomers have observed a "cosmic joust" between two galaxies colliding at immense speed over 11 billion light-years away. The collision ...
25 May, 2025, 04.00 PM IST
Ancient Milky Way-like galaxy discovered, surprising astronomersThe distant galaxy, called J0107a, was observed as it appeared 11.1 billion years ago, when the universe was about a fifth of its current a...
24 May, 2025, 12.55 AM IST
Supermassive black hole, 6,00,000 times the mass of Sun, is heading towards the Milky Way. When is the collision likely to happen?Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of the Sun. The L...
14 Feb, 2025, 04.26 PM IST
Remarkable phenomena in the Universe: Five galaxies collide at an astonishing speed of two million miles per hour to create a sonic boomA breathtaking galactic collision in Stephan's Quintet has been observed, in which five galaxies collide at two million mph, causing a powe...
27 Nov, 2024, 09.07 PM IST
James Webb captures stunning images of Cartwheel Galaxy located 500 million light-years awayNASA and the European Space Agency said that the telescope has managed to capture the galaxy's spinning ring of colour with unprecedented c...
03 Aug, 2022, 04.52 PM IST
- Monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away spotted
Tokyo, Aug 30 (IANS) Astronomers have obtained the most detailed anatomy chart of a monster galaxy located 12.4 billion light-years away, u...
30 Aug, 2018, 01.22 PM IST
Milky Way dotted with 100 million black holes: StudyScientists assume most stellar-remnant black holes - which result from the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lives - will be ab...
09 Aug, 2017, 03.25 PM IST
- Hubble captures universe's brightest galaxies
New York, June 7 (IANS) Using a cosmic magnifying-glass effect, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured unique close-up views of the bri...
07 Jun, 2017, 06.15 PM IST
- Stars born in winds from supermassive black holes spotted
London, March 28 (IANS) Astronomers have observed for the first time stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from su...
28 Mar, 2017, 12.35 PM IST
Hubble views a galactic mega-merger: NASAThe Hubble Space Telescope has viewed a galactic mega-merger - a product of a collision between two good-sized galaxies, which is slowly ev...
18 Jan, 2016, 06.50 PM IST
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.
08 Jan, 2016, 12.49 PM IST
Hubble captures two galaxies merging 230 million light-years awayAs the merging process continues, individual stars are thrown out of their original orbits and placed onto entirely new paths.
31 Dec, 2015, 03.36 PM IST
Rapid formation of new stars in distant galaxiesThe majority of stars have been believed to lie on a "main sequence," where the larger a galaxy's mass, the higher its efficiency to form n...
17 Oct, 2015, 03.04 PM IST
Scientists find out what happens when two same-size galaxies collidePreviously, astronomers thought that when two galaxies smash into each other their gas clouds get churned up and seed the birth of new star...
13 Jul, 2015, 03.54 PM IST