The discovery of dormant galaxies, located in the first billion years after the Big Bang, is shaking up our understanding of ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to ...

Birthplace of young stars: James Webb telescope gives stunning new look at 'Pillars of Creation' "We just discovered the impossible. Impossibly early, impossibly massive galaxies," Ivo Labbé, the ...

Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home ...

Globular clusters like NGC 1786 are tightly packed groups of stars, often containing hundreds of thousands of stars bound ...

Today our galaxy produces roughly one new star per year, but Castellano’s paper suggests that star-formation rates must have been at least 20 times higher in his and Naidu’s two candidate ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...

Ultramassive galaxy discovery provides new look at early universe by: Eric Henrikson. Posted: Feb 27, 2024 / 05:00 AM CST. Updated: Feb 27, 2024 / 06:51 AM CST. by: Eric Henrikson.

Our Milky Way galaxy may be surrounded by 100 undetected 'orphan' galaxies; This means the new discovery could reveal more about ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in addition to helping unlock the ...

The surprising discovery of COS-87259 and its black hole raises several questions about the abundance of very early supermassive black holes, as well as the types of galaxies in which they ...

The new discovery suggests that the very early universe contains many more galaxies than previously assumed. They simply lie hidden behind dust consisting of small particles from stars.

New knowledge about early galaxies Date: July 3, 2013 Source: University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute Summary: The early galaxies of the universe were very different from today's galaxies.