Shockingly Tiny Galaxy Near Andromeda Is Just One-Millionth the Size of the Milky Way
Andromeda XXXV is only about 20,000 times more massive than our Sun—very small, even for a satellite galaxy. For comparison, ...
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Hubble Space Telescope captures rare 'cosmic guitar' merger between two galaxies
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the rare merger of two galaxies, which are forming what's been dubbed a "cosmic guitar." ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
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James Webb discovered massive galaxies that astronomers say shouldn’t exist
Instead of these large, hulking early galaxies that Webb observed, scientists expected there to be smaller and younger types of galaxies for that particular time period. Of course, this wouldn’t ...
Scientists Just Found 300 of Some of the Rarest Black Holes in the Universe
DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA ...
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One of the most massive black holes in the universe lurks at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe
It's a particular type of rare galaxy called a luminous ... galaxies and they don't find SMBHs at the heart of dwarf galaxies. There's an established link between SMBHs and their host galaxies ...