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Galaxy Messier 82 (M82), also known as the Cigar GalaxyNASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team (STScIAURA); J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI), P. Puxley (NSF) A scarlet…

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in deep spaceNASA, APL, SwRI, Serge Brunier (ESO), Mark Postman (STScI), Dan Dardah We finally know just how dark deep space is:…

JWST image of a small red dot galaxyJosephine, F. W. Budgen et al. (2024). A strangely bright galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…

Astronomers have discovered a strange banana-shaped galaxy, and evidence seems to suggest that filaments of dark matter are giving it its shape

When the galaxy clusters collided, dark matter (blue) got ahead of regular matter (orange).W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Billions of years ago, when two massive clusters…

How do massive black holes merge?Jurik Peter/Shutterstock Supermassive black holes can merge, but for decades astrophysicists have been unaware of how this happens. Now, in the…

Artist’s impression of a very distant undead galaxyESO/M. Kornmesser A strange zombie-like galaxy has been discovered in the distant universe: the immortal galaxy stopped forming stars…

Galaxies like Andromeda have supermassive black holes at their centersNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology Supermassive black holes appear to be more powerful than theory suggests, blasting the…