In recent groundbreaking research published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, scientists from the ...

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our ...

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last around a millisecond and in doing so encode otherwise unattainable information on the plasma ...

"One day soon we may be able to see these 'missing' galaxies, which would be hugely exciting and could tell us more about how the universe came to be as we see it today." ...

Theoretically, there's no limit to how massive a black hole could grow. In practical terms, other constraints, such as the ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Instead, COSMOS-AzTEC-1 has a runaway star-formation rate over 1000 times that of our Milky Way galaxy, and Tadaki's team estimates it will run out of gas in just 100 million years.

The Universe, in the aftermath of the Big Bang (post-inflation), arrives on the scene with the seeds for our modern-day galaxies already planted. Our Universe is hot, dense, expanding, and filled ...

It launched last in 2021 from French Guiana. The galaxy existed when the universe was only about 700 million years into its current age of about 13.8 billion years.

The night sky is a natural time machine, used by cosmologists to explore the origins and evolution of the universe. Reaching into the depths of the past, a class of undergraduate students at the ...