A massive, rotating disk galaxy designated DLA0817g and nicknamed the "Wolfe Disk," formed just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. It was discovered using ALMA, the Atacama Large ...

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But, most intriguing of all is the name Mara. Most likely, this refers to Mara Jade, one of the most famous of the Legends ...

The black hole, named RACS J0320-35, is about a billion times heavier than the Sun. It lies 12.8 billion light years from ...

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons ...

Astronomers have discovered a tiny, ghostly galaxy in a remote corner of the universe, likely a cosmic castaway flung from ...

When most people imagine the vastness of space, they picture a dark void with plenty of observable objects. Planets, stars, and other galaxies often come to mind when picturing what space actually ...

Scientists at Rutgers and collaborators have traced the invisible dark matter scaffolding of the universe using over 100,000 ...

These alternate versions of classic DC and Marvel superheroes have greater power, more compelling motivations, and have saved more people than their mainline counterparts ever have. Having fought the ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...