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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recently-discovered powerful cosmic lens, which magnifies profoundly distant objects in space. There are funhouse mirrors in ...

Galaxy clusters are formed by a dense packing of many galaxies, making them the most massive structures in the universe. Their progenitors, protoclusters, show these galaxies in their infancy, ...

Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...

In a rare and extraordinary discovery, researchers have identified a unique configuration of galaxies that form the most exquisitely aligned gravitational lens found to date. The Carousel Lens is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simulated cosmic lenses trained a neural network to spot faint galaxy signals buried beneath brilliant quasars. (CREDIT: ...

When, where, how? The cosmos is full of questions. Still, astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope were surprised to find a distant red galaxy distorted into the shape of a question mark. A ...

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 ...