Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

Space. It's really, really big. How big is it? Well, according to astronomers, the observable universe is around 92 billion light-years in diameter, but that's all we can see (hence the word ...

An inexplicably hot, fast-growing cluster of galaxies in the early universe has scientists questioning theories of galactic evolution.

A team of astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe’s distant past have discovered nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. Imagine receiving an ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope has been spotting enormous black holes in the early universe that defy all ...

There may not be as nearly as many small galaxies in the early universe as astronomers predict there should be, which has big ...

Among the hundreds of billions of galaxies that stretch across the known universe, even the smallest members can reveal secrets about our cosmic history. But even as we discover new galaxies, ...

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