Webb Telescope detected a possible direct collapse black hole between two merging galaxies called the "Infinity Galaxy." ...
What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how you look at it. The James Webb Space Telescope has helped two international ...
With its distinct owl-like appearance, it looks like a nature photo snapped in the woods in the dead of night. It could also be an artistic portrait from an art gallery, with its shimmering shades of ...
Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...
Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...
Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the “Infinity” galaxy — two recently-collided galaxies that, together, look like the symbol for ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through cosmic dust to reveal new details and a stunning image of a rare type of galaxy. The space observatory's latest image shows the Cartwheel galaxy, a ...
Astronomers using data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a spectacular cosmic object they’re calling the “Infinity Galaxy.” The site of an epic head-on collision between two ...
"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" Using the James Webb Space ...
A vast river of neutral hydrogen bridges two galaxies that are beginning to enter the monstrous Virgo Cluster, and this structure is helping astronomers better understand our Milky Way's relationship ...
Researchers from The University of Western Australia node at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) ...
For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a mysterious glow of gamma rays emanating from near the center of the Milky Way ...