The very first generation of stars, called Population III stars, are mostly expected to be too distant to see directly – but ...

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe ...

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The galaxy cluster PLCKG 287.0+32.9, located 5 billion light-years away, exhibits an exceptionally violent collision of three subclusters, characterized by extensive turbulence and shock waves.

The Perseus cluster is a vast swirl of thousands of galaxies, all bound together by gravity. Famed for its unbelievable size — containing the mass of some 600 trillion suns — it also has a reputation ...

UChicago-led study analyzes massive galaxy clusters mapped by the Dark Energy Survey, offers new way to probe cosmic laws ...

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This image shows the colliding galaxy clusters that make up the system PSZ2 G181 in blue, flanked by a pair of radio shock fronts in red © X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/Stroe ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

The sounds aren't just a scientific curiosity, though. The tenuous gas and plasma that drifts between the galaxies in galaxy ...