The team has concluded these galaxies would only exist if star formation were proceeding at a higher rate than predicted. "Many processes in galaxy evolution have a tendency to introduce a rate ...

Astronomers have spied a galaxy so large and so old that it should not exist - at least according to our current understanding of how early galaxies formed. The galaxy, dubbed ZF-UDS-7329 ...

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...

The Milky Way is a spectacular galaxy, not just because it is home to our ... Many believed there was a time when barred galaxies didn’t exist. However, new data gathered by James Webb has ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

In theory, the 341 red dots should not exist, because according to cosmological ... “When LRD were first identified, people thought they were massive galaxies that existed very early in the ...

Some galaxies were spotted ... are dominated by their black holes and not by their stars. Despite the early analysis suggesting that they were too big to exist, once a growing black hole is ...

these galaxies should simply fly apart. Our latest calculations suggest that dark matter makes up over 80 per cent of all matter out there. Another possibility is that dark matter is not WIMPs ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. How do galaxies form? For decades, that's been a mystery, but it may have finally been solved by a group of astronomers using ...