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 mechanism ...

For almost a century, astronomers have been using the Hubble-Lemaitre constant to explain the accelerating expansion of the universe, an intrinsic piece of the puzzle that supports the Big Bang ...

Active galaxy—A galaxy with an unusually strong output ... with mass in the range between a planet and a star (greater than 1.3 percent and less than 8 percent the mass of the sun).

During its observations, the telescope will catalog 1.5 billion galaxies and the stars within them, collecting a treasure trove of data for astronomers that includes each galaxy’s mass and ...

The existence and origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been a hot topic in astronomy research in recent years. Now that we ...

Spanning some 1.8 billion light years ... are prevalent throughout the cosmos. The so-called ‘ Local Void’ remains the nearest-known void to our Milky Way galaxy. Our own galaxy lies in ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have found dozens of elusive brown dwarfs — strange objects larger than planets but ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...