The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...
The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to ...
A sheet of dark matter lying beyond the boundary of the Local Group is responsible for this.
JWST has revealed a strange early universe filled with ultra-bright “blue monster” galaxies, mysterious “little red dots,” ...
Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA If you look across space with a telescope, you’ll see ...
A team of researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope has produced the most detailed map of dark matter to date.
The sharpest dark matter map ever reveals the invisible cosmic scaffolding that built galaxies, stars, and ultimately life itself.
Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...
Scientists have created the highest resolution map of the dark matter that threads through the universe—showing its influence on the formation of stars, galaxies and planets.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Whether the universe will “end” at all is not certain, but all evidence suggests it ...
New radio observations of molecular gas reveal how dozens of galaxies could have rapidly merged together in the early ...