A supermassive black hole accidentally spotted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is now flying through space, leaving a breadcrumb path of stars behind it.
The data on these four ancient galaxies, observed when the universe was just a few hundred million years old, was obtained using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
Galaxy clusters are some of the largest objects in the universe, but how are they formed? ESO and ALMA studied the Spiderweb protocluster and found proof it is turning into a cluster.
The supermassive black hole at the center of Abell 1201 BCG was found using gravitational lensing. It's so big that it might be part of a new category: Ultramassive black holes.
Once the stars died, the conditions needed for their development were never available for them to appear again.
Quasar galaxy 3C 297 is all alone in space, but from what we know, it should be within a galaxy cluster. How did this happen? It seemingly ate all of them.
This discovery could completely upend our understanding of space, with the paper's co-author describing the entire situation as "bananas."
The three galaxies in question have been designated as SDSSCGB 10189 and are in the process of merging into one massive galaxy. A similar fate will befall the Milky Way in 4.5 billion years.
Only a millionth of simulated galaxies were located in a cosmological wall like the Local Sheet and had a mass like the Milky Way's.
The signal was detected by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India and may indicate that humanity is ready to study galaxies in the farther reaches of space.
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