The background image shows the present-day distribution of matter in a slice through the largest FLAMINGO simulation, which is a cubic volume of 2.8 Gpc (9.1 billion light years) on a side. The ...

Scientists have created what they say is the biggest simulation of our cosmos ever. The virtual universe has the mass of 300 billion galaxies, packed into a space with edges ten billion light years ...

Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder may have solved a pressing mystery about the universe's gravitational wave ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a tiny set of galaxies in the early universe that look deceptively simple but ...

In the very young universe, just a fraction of its current age, astronomers have stumbled on a set of objects that refuse to ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

The simulations will be used by astronomers to test the standard model of cosmology. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The world's ...

The Center for Computational Astrophysics at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has introduced the HPE Cray XD2000 system as a new supercomputer to replace the current dedicated ...

Some galaxies meant to be spirals might've been smoothed-out into clumpy ellipticals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you were ...

The discovery of thousands more galaxies with stars ringing their main disks could help astronomers study galactic evolution ...

Black holes, some of the most captivating entities in the cosmos, possess an immense gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. The groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves in ...