JWST finds mysterious red objects pairing up in the early universe
JWST images have revealed four candidate pairs of “little red dots,” compact early-universe objects increasingly associated with rapidly…
New study challenges existing knowledge for why galaxies stop forming stars
Most galaxy collisions do not cause galaxies to stop making new stars.A galaxy’s central black hole and its…
JWST reveals why some distant galaxies suddenly stop forming stars
Distant galaxies that abruptly stopped making stars have puzzled astronomers for years. About 9 billion years ago, during…
Galaxy-killing wind may explain why giant galaxies died so early
A massive galaxy in the early universe seems to be growing itself toward ruin. While it churns out…
The Milky Way ate a galaxy called Loki, and scientists think they found its bones
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How did massive elliptical galaxies appear so early after the Big Bang
Four galaxies crowd the center of a collapsing structure 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. Each one…
Physicists propose a new way to spot supermassive black hole pairs
Supermassive black holes rarely travel alone. Most large galaxies hide one at the center, and when galaxies collide,…
NASA, Partners Advance LISA Prototype Hardware
Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, completed tests this month on a…