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Five-galaxy merger soon after the Big Bang captured, James Webb Space Telescope discovers rare phenomenaThe James Webb Space Telescope discovered an exceptionally rare five-galaxy merger system 800 million years after the Big Bang. Nicknamed J...
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...
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...
Evil Eye in Space? Nasa captures galaxy 17 million light years away from Earth. Check image hereNasa has discovered a galaxy which goes by the nickname 'Evil Eye' which is atleast 17 million light years from Earth. The galaxy has a bri...
NASA's Webb Space Telescope captures Question mark-shaped cosmic body, baffles scientistsDo you know that our own galaxy Milky Way will collide with Andromeda galaxy some four billion years from now? Read in detail what experts ...
- 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...
- Astronomers spot pair of rare hyper-luminous galaxies
New York, Nov 14 (IANS) In a first, astronomers have spotted close encounter between two hyper-luminous starburst galaxies -- astoundingly ...
- Massive black holes might lurk on edge of Milky Way
New York, Oct 31 (IANS) The outskirts of spiral galaxies like our own could be crowded with colliding black holes of massive proportions, s...
- Astronomers find massive disk-shaped dead galaxy
Washington, June 22 (IANS) Astronomers have detected a first-of-its kind compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stoppe...
- Astronomers find galaxies creating stars at furious pace
New York, May 25 (IANS) A team of astronomers has discovered a new kind of galaxies which, although extremely old -- formed less than a bil...
- 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.
- Universe has 10 times more galaxies than previously thought
Washington, Oct 14 (IANS) There are at least 10 times more galaxies in the observable universe than previously thought, said astronomers.
Hubble spots galaxy hiding in the night sky, located over 110 million light-years awayWith surface brightnesses up to 250 times fainter than the night sky, these galaxies can be incredibly difficult to detect, researchers sai...
Dark matter satellites trigger massive birth of starsThese star forming episodes may last for several billions of years, depending on the mass, orbit and concentration of the dark satellite, r...
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...
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...
Galaxies have undergone major changes in their shapes after Big BangA large proportion of galaxies have undergone a major 'metamorphosis' since they were initially formed after the Big Bang.