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In a patch of sky about 1.2 billion light-years from Earth, astronomers have found a cosmic rarity: three galaxies caught in ...

According to a new study, some of the earliest galaxies observed with the James Webb Space Telescope are in fact much less massive than they first appeared. Black holes in some of these galaxies make ...

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Another batch of the ‘impossible’ galaxies turned out not to be standard galaxies at all, but a new type of object that ...

Astronomers have spotted three merging galaxies where all central black holes are actively feeding and radio bright, ...

A few hundred million years after the Big Bang, a thick fog of hydrogen gas shrouded the newborn universe in darkness. Stars had begun to form in the densest clumps, but the surrounding gas muffled ...

Euclid’s first deep-field survey has captured 26 million galaxies, some over 10 billion light-years away, offering a preview of its mission to chart a third of the sky in stunning detail. AI and ...

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Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...