"All the odd shapes and swirling gas observed in the Perseus cluster now make sense," said astronomer James Lee.

"SPT2349-56 is a system so extraordinary that we may have caught one of the most massive clusters under formation at a very ...

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare kind of galaxy that seems to be missing one of the universe’s most important ingredients: ...

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

"No existing galaxy formation model within our standard cosmological paradigm can currently explain how this galaxy came to ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 billion years ago.

An international team of astronomers has solved one of the longstanding cosmic mysteries by uncovering direct evidence of a ...

The team behind this discovery speculates that this gas could eventually become the hot, diffuse gas called the intracluster medium (ICM) that has been seen filling mature galaxy clusters.