Galaxy
Scientists Just Found a ‘Restless’ Supermassive Black Hole Wandering in Space
We’ve always thought of supermassive black holes as stationary objects sitting tight while everything swirls around them. Until now.
Milky Way Is Being Slowly 'Pulled' Apart by a Neighbouring Galaxy
The gravitational force is causing our home galaxy to twist and deform.
An Unexplained Repeating Radio Signal Is Coming From Inside Our Galaxy, Scientists Discover
It turns out that the first fast radio burst (FRB) ever found in the Milky Way is not a one-off.
Astronomers Are Hunting for a ‘Hidden’ Halo Orbiting the Milky Way
A speculative “corona' may be responsible for the odd properties of the Magellanic Stream, a river of gas and galaxy guts that stretches across half the night sky.
Scientists Discovered a Massive 'Bridge' Between Galaxy Clusters
The discovery of the bridge is another tantalizing step towards observing the cosmic web: the vast network of dark matter and hydrogen gas believed to form the backbone of the universe.
Indian Satellite Discovers One of the Earliest Galaxies
A team of international astronomers has laid claim to the discovery of UV light emanating from a galaxy 9.3 billion light-years away from Earth, using India's AstroSat.
Scientists Found a Lookalike of Our Own Galaxy Deep in Cosmic Time
12 billion light years from Earth, scientists spotted a galaxy that is the spitting image of a young Milky Way. Its discovery challenges our understanding of the early universe.
Ripples in Spacetime Keep Revealing Bizarre Occurrences in Space
Two recent studies probed ripples in spacetime from cataclysmic black hole events to reveal light in an implausible place and a mystery object in the cosmos.
A Massive Star Has Seemingly Vanished from Space With No Explanation
Astronomers are trying to figure out whether the star collapsed into a black hole without going supernova, or if it disappeared in a cloud of dust.
The Milky Way Contains 36 Contactable Alien Civilizations, Scientists Estimate
Scientists estimated how many alien societies in the Milky Way can send interstellar messages. But just because they can talk does not mean we will hear them.
A Mysterious Ancient Galaxy Just Rewrote the Universe's Timeline
A disk galaxy in the early universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, somehow formed during a time of chaotic cosmic conditions.
A Black Hole’s Energy Beam is Seemingly Breaking the Laws of Physics
New observations reveal that an “extraordinary” optical illusion on a massive scale is making a jet from the galaxy 3C 279 appear to move 20 times faster than the speed of light.