The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

Discover seven unusual galaxies defying scientific predictions, from impossibly bright early universe objects to astrophysics ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...

You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome ...

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies rapidly merge together in the early universe.

The young galaxy cluster existed about 12.8 billion years ago and has an estimated mass 20 trillion times that of the sun ...

Astronomers have spotted a mysteriously mature “baby cluster” of galaxies in the early universe, scarcely a billion years ...

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 ...

Imagine drifting through space in a place so empty that you wouldn’t see a single star, planet, or galaxy in any direction.

Researchers believe the 'ultramassive' black hole is big enough to be the largest of its kind ever detected. Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light ...

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

New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...