The universe has a habit of surprising us, revealing its deepest secrets in the most unexpected ways. One such revelation arrived in the form of an astonishing discovery around the elliptical galaxy ...

Are quiescent disks in early-universe galaxies hiding a much more violent reality? Recent research suggests that they might and the evidence is in one of the universe’s strongest natural magnifying ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. There are funhouse mirrors in space. Objects in the universe can be so massive — often clusters of ...

The astronomers used the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to look at a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years from Earth, seen as it was when the Universe was only ...

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have provided unique insight into the nature of a young star-forming galaxy as it appeared only ...

An elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy appear as one celestial body as a result of the effects of mass on spacetime, the fabric of the universe. Two celestial bodies become one in a rare cosmic ...

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in comparison to the power of nature’s own “cosmic magnifying glasses” – strong ...

A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. Credit: William Sheu (UCLA) / Hubble Space Telescope There are funhouse mirrors in space. Objects in ...