Latest about galaxies
Space photo of the week: Hubble catches a 'baseball galaxy' with a black hole heart
ESO 420-G013 is a face-on spiral galaxy with an almost perfectly round disk and an active black hole lighting up its starry guts.
How do galaxies grow while ensnared in the universe's cosmic web?
New simulations show how thousands of galaxies evolve by traveling through the strands of gas, dust and stars that make up the universe's "cosmic web."
The universe might be younger than we thought, galaxies' motion suggests
We think the universe is 13.8 billion years old, but could we be wrong? A new study of bound galaxies offers an unexplored clue.
Faint radio signal from ancient star cluster could be rare 'missing link' black hole, astronomers report
The most sensitive image of a globular cluster, a tightly packed ball of ancient stars, has revealed a strange radio signal that could be a black hole.
Hubble tracks farthest and most powerful fast radio burst back to 'blob' of 7 galaxies
The most powerful and distant fast radio burst ever seen has been tracked to a "blob" of galaxies that existed when the universe was less than half its current age.
One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way is hiding a second galaxy behind it, new research reveals
New observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud show that it might actually be two galaxies disguised as one.
8 stunning James Webb Space Telescope discoveries made in 2023
The oldest ever black holes, a preview of our solar system's gory demise, and a measurement of distant starlight that threatens to bring the standard of cosmology crashing down — here are the JWST's wildest discoveries of 2023.
Hubble Telescope captures a galaxy's 'forbidden' light in stunning new image
The Hubble Telescope viewed a distant galaxy whose light appears to contradict some of the most common rules of quantum physics.
