galaxies
Supermassive dark matter stars may be lurking in the early universe
Exotic stars could be powered by dark matter remotevfx/Getty Images We may have seen the first hints of the existence ...
Galaxy NGC 2775 continues to baffle astronomers
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Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy – NASA
This is NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope The image shows a galaxy that is difficult to classify. We are talking about ...
Astronomers may have glimpsed evidence of the biggest stars ever seen
An artist's impression of Population III stars 100 million years after the Big Bang. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Space Engine/M. Period The ...
Mystery deepens as isolated galaxy forms stars with no obvious fuel
A galaxy called NGC 6789, as seen with the 2-meter twin telescope. Ignacio Trujillo et al. 2025 About 12 million ...
Brightest black hole flare ever caused by huge star being ripped apart
A supermassive black hole in the process of destroying a huge star Caltech/R. Painful (IPAC) Astronomers have spotted the brightest ...
A distant galaxy is being strangled by the cosmic web
Modeling the large-scale structure of a galaxy cluster Outstanding Collaboration/ESO The cosmic web is killing the galaxy. Galaxies can only ...
Largest observed flare from a black hole unleashes the light of 10 trillion suns
Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flash ever seen from a supermassive black hole. The flare, nicknamed “Superman”, ...
We may have found a surprisingly nearby cluster of primordial stars
An artist's impression of Population III stars as they might appear 100 million years after the Big Bang. NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da ...
A tiny nearby galaxy is home to a shockingly enormous black hole
It may be hard to believe, but at the center of this image is Segue 1, a very faint dwarf ...
